ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike

rbanffy 69 points 8 comments October 19, 2026
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Heronsunny

Spent time doing shape modeling from flyby imagery and the thing I'm most curious about is whether they get good enough lighting geometry on the crater rim.

shevy-java

ESA must defend against Trump-NASA. Recently the USA threatened Europeans again if they "prevent" entry of US-Starlink and other AI slop spam working for Putin. The USA has become a security risk not only for Ukrainians but all Europans under agent Krasnov.

comandillos

Quite impressive this spacecraft will really orbit around a binary asteroid system using a camera-based autonomous navigation system

botanical

From the name, I wondered how this was going to be related to HERA (it isn't), a radio telescope array in South Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_Epoch_of_Reionization...

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