In just one more month, the European Space Agency’s Hera mission will make history. Moving at 12 km/s versus Earth, the mission is about to rendezvous with the binary Dimorphos-Didymos asteroid pair. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission slammed into Dimorphos in 2022, and now Hera will provide a follow-up view of the mission’s resulting handiwork. The European Space Agency (ESA) recently released a thought-provoking look at the perspectives of Hera, and what an astronaut might see from the surface of the asteroids as the mission speeds by.

Here’s our latest post on the Hera mission for @universetoday - https://www.universetoday.com/articles/esas-hera-mission-targets-binary-asteroid-pair-in-november