Fraser Cain on Nostr: ESA's Hera mission launched on Friday, October 11th, bound for asteroid Didymos and ...
ESA's Hera mission launched on Friday, October 11th, bound for asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos. To help test its camera and science experiments, ESA directed the spacecraft to capture an image of the Earth and Moon when it was more than one million km away. These images give a good sense of what Hera will be able to see when it arrives at its binary asteroid target in October 2026.
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera_s_first_images_offer_parting_glimpse_of_Earth_and_Moon 
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