Hera Aces A Massive Engine Burn On Its Way To Didymos #Science #Space #SpaceExploration #HeraMission #Didymos
www.universetoday.com/articles/hera-aces-a-mas...
Diesen November wird es spannend: #ESA #BepiColombo kommt am Merkur an und #HeraMission wird fast zeitgleich Didymos/Dimorphos erreichen.
Nur, dass ihr euch schon mal darauf vorbereiten könnt: Ende des Jahres wird die #ESA #heramission das Didymos #Asteroiden|system erreichen. Dann können wir erstmals vor Ort erkunden, was der #DART|Einschlag auf Dimorphos bewirkt hat. Stay tuned #DLR
We await the #HeraMission arriving at #Didymos and #Dimorphos to see exactly what the #DARTMission did.
Hera And Europa Clipper Will Pass Through 3I/ATLAS' Tail #Science #Space #SpaceExploration #HeraMission #EuropaClipper #3IATLAS
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"ESA’s Hera targets early arrival at Didymos asteroids"
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Today on the arXiv:
@harrisonagrusa.bsky.social & Camille Chatenet 2025, "Gravitational scattering of ejecta in the Didymos system cannot explain the evolution of the binary's orbital period" - arxiv.org/abs/2509.20197
More #DARTMission science in advance of the #HeraMission arriving.
The impact hazard session at #EPSCDPS2025 features overviews of the #DARTMission and the #HeraMission: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025... .
And also a reminder of the importance of avoiding causing an impact hazard when addressing the impact hazard.
Today in the Planetary Science Journal:
Lolachi et al. 2025, "Ejecta Mass Estimates from the DART Impact Plume Inferred from LICIACube Images" - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
#DARTMission and #HeraMission science.
New review of #HeraMission science:
Michel et al. 2025, "The Hera Space Mission in the Context of Small Near-Earth Asteroid Missions in the Past, Present and Future" - link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/addd1a/pdf
Check out an interesting new paper on (among other things) the fate of the boulder called Bodhrán observed by the LICIACube flyby of the post impact DART debris field. Implications for the @esa.int #HeraMission . Irish people making jokes about our beloved bodhrán should go to the back of class.
Today on the #arXiv:
Farnham et al. 2025, "High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta" - arxiv.org/abs/2506.16694
#DARTMission science with predictions for the #HeraMission.
And demonstrating how things can go sideways in a collision.
The GRASS gravimeter in the thermal vacuum chamber
An illustration of the Hera orbiter (left) connected to its two CubeSats, Juventas and Milani, via an inter-satellite communication link. The GRASS gravimeter is located onboard Juventas.
The GRASS is always greener on the other side of the…asteroid? ☄️
On Earth, gravity points ‘down ’, but things aren't as simple on an asteroid. 🤔 Hera's GRASS instrument will measure Dimorphos's complex gravity precisely to learn about its structure.
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Occultation data suggests that Dimorphos is considerably less dense than Didymos, or at least was before the #DARTMission impact.
Need more data; for which the #HeraMission is on the way.
#PDC2025
Die #HeraMission der ESA ist vor sechs Monaten gestartet! Hera hat bereits aufregende Einblicke in zwei Planeten und ihre Monde erhalten, aber es gibt noch viel mehr zu sehen, wenn sie Ende 2026 den Asteroiden Didymos und seinen kleinen Mond Dimorphos erreicht.🛰️🔎🪨🪨
A scanned photo showing a scruffy but nominally clean-shaven young white man wearing an oversized T-shirt standing next to a shorter Asian woman with short black hair. Both are smiling for the camera and are standing in a graduate student office.
A photo of an Asian woman, whose only signifier of age is a bit of gray hair, standing next to a scruffy, bearded, middle-aged man in a baseball cap. Both are smiling and standing in front of a statue of Ultraman.
It’s been nice to have a bit of a #DARTMission reunion here at the #HeraMission team meeting, particularly with Nakamura-san. Nobody on the DART team met me before she did in 1991 (though Kadono-san did meet me at the same time)!
For people interested in asteroid science:
There are #HeraMission and #Apophis meetings this week, in Tokyo and online - www.hera-apophis-ramses-tokyo.org/en-us/meetin...
📽️Why does #HeraMission need autonomous surface feature tracking for self-driving, recently tested at🔴Mars? When Hera ventures closest to its target asteroid, it will have no other way of navigating: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Als die #HeraMission am Mars vorbeigeflogen ist, nahm sie autonom Dutzende von Einschlagskratern und anderen Oberflächenmerkmalen auf und verfolgte sie im Laufe der Zeit, um die selbststeuernde Technologie zu testen, die die Mission zur Navigation um ihre Ziel-Asteroiden einsetzen wird.
Mehr dazu 👇
#HeraMission has a voice now! Thanks to developers at Terra Mater Studios, impactAI and @microsoft.com, you can now talk to Hera - curious how she feels after having recently flown by Mars and its moon Deimos? Take a listen 🔊
Have a chat with Hera Space Companion here 🤖 👉 hera.space
🔴 The Hera probe captured exceptional images of #Mars and its #moon Deimos, while on its way to study the Dimorphos #asteroid, hit by DART in 2022! This close encounter represents a valuable scientific opportunity 🤩 #HeraMission 📸 @esa.int (photo 3 ESA/JAXA) 👉 swll.to/aCSw0g
#HeraMission delivers incredible images of #Mars and #Deimos during its flyby. This mission rocks ☄️ @esa.int
Wow! 🤩 #PlanetSci #Mars #HeraMission
Probe captures rare images of moon orbiting Mars
#ESA #HeraMission #Deimos #MarsMoons #AsteroidDefense
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🛰️🔴 #HeraMission a survolé Mars et Deimos le 12 mars.
Des images quasi inédites de cette face de la petite lune ont été prises par 3 des instruments de la sonde européenne
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