Hera’s first close-up view of Didymos asteroids
The European Space Agency’s Hera mission for planetary defence has acquired its first close-up image of the Didymos binary asteroid system! In this image, acquired by Hera’s monochromatic Asteroid Framing Camera from 60 km away, most of the 151-m diameter Dimorphos asteroid is hidden by a shadow, but the 780-m diameter Didymos asteroid that the…