I am working on Greece time for a few days, to call in to the last #HeraMission workshop before the spacecraft arrives at Didymos and sees what the #DARTMission has done: https://www.heramission.space/workshop-2026 .
Thanks go the organizers.
I am working on Greece time for a few days, to call in to the last #HeraMission workshop before the spacecraft arrives at Didymos and sees what the #DARTMission has done: https://www.heramission.space/workshop-2026 .
Thanks go the organizers.
The #HeraMission has released a new promotional poster in advance of the spacecraft's arrival at Didymos this November:
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/03/Hera_mission_poster
RE: https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-158e8e14-c957b7b6fb1818db
We await the #HeraMission arriving at #Didymos and #Dimorphos to see exactly what the #DARTMission did.
Last week in the Planetary Science Journal:
Ďurech et al. 2025, "A Change of the Rotation Period of Asteroid (65803) Didymos Caused by the DART Impact" - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae29ec/meta .
Reshaping and debris from the impact onto Dimorphos changing the shape of Didymos just a little bit.
Relevant for both the #DARTMission and the #HeraMission .
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