ESA's Hera Spacecraft Obtains Initial Close-Up of Didymos Asteroid System

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Published: 2026-11-09
Category: science
Source: SpaceWatch.GLOBAL
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The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft has successfully captured its first close-up image of the Didymos binary asteroid system. This imaging provides a new perspective on the larger asteroid, which was previously the target of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022.

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