ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike
rbanffy
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October 19, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
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...