Mars appears light blue in this near-infrastructure image taken by Hera spacecraft. Its moon is a deep mark towards the center of the Demos image
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A space exploration mission to study an asteroid, which was deliberately crashed a spacecraft by NASA three years ago. Deimos route to your last destination.
In 2022, NASA’s double asteroid redirect test (DART) was an attempt to show that bodies on a collision course with our planet could be rejected to deliberately avoid frightening effects. Comments from the Earth showed that by breaking the craft, which had a mass of 580 kg on the effect, in a distant asteroid in the distant asteroid at 6.6 kilometers per second, NASA successfully changed the orbit of asteroid. Dimorphos offers no risk to the Earth and was just acting as a test subject.
Hera is a later European Space Agency Mission designed to keep an eye on the impact of the accident. The craft is around the size of a small car, when the fuel is fully weighing 1081 kg. It was launched on 7 October 2024 from Cape Canveral, Florida, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and made a flyb of Mars on the way to asteroid on 12 March 2025, which would not reach until October 2026.
Deimos dark appears, is implicated by Mars
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Hera fell at a distance of 5000 kilometers on the surface of Mars, promoting a gravity, which would extend it for demorphos. The exercise shortened his journey time for several months and saved it from fuel.
While it was very close to Mars, it was also able to turn on the trio of the sensor and take many detailed pictures of the planet and Deimos in the same frame. A black and white camera with 1020 resolution by 1020 Pixel was used to capture images, as well as an infrared camera and a hypercopectural imager that could understand a series of colors beyond the limits of the human eye.
Hera was going at a distance of 9 kilometers per second relative to Mars and was able to create an image of 12.4 km-Lumba Demos from only 1000 km away. It can also take a picture of the edge of the moon which is closed away from Mars, which is usually occupied by low.
In this shot captured by Hera’s thermal infrared image, Dimos shines much bright than Mars.
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The initial concept behind the Hera Mission was present for this when the dart collided with the demorphos, but the delay in funding made that impossible impossible. It will now reach many years after the effect.
The mission also has two miniature satellites, or cubsat, called Juventus and Milani. Instead of orbiting the demorphos, they will fly in front of it, which will lead to the wider and risky distance to collect the data. Both are eventually expected to land on asteroid to get a close look, once they can do everything that can do at some distance.
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