Hera Mission Arrival (in person)
Join us in person for the world premiere of the first images captured by Hera upon reaching the Didymos / Dimorphos asteroid system. About this Event More than 40,000 near-Earth asteroids have been d…
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Join us in person for the world premiere of the first images captured by Hera upon reaching the Didymos / Dimorphos asteroid system.
About this Event
More than 40,000 near-Earth asteroids have been discovered to date, some of which could potentially hit our planet with catastrophic consequences. The international scientific community is investigating methods to prevent such an event from happening, such as deflecting the asteroid’s trajectory.
On 26 September 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted asteroid Dimorphos at a speed of 14,000 mph, changing its orbital period around the larger asteroid Didymos. DART was the world's first space mission to test asteroid deflection using a kinetic impactor for planetary defence.
Following on the DART mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Hera spacecraft in 2024 to perform a detailed post-impact survey of the Didymos / Dimorphos binary asteroid system.
After two years of interplanetary space travel, He
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