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ESA's Hera mission

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Part of the first test of asteroid deflection. Launched 7 October 2024 on a mission to the binary asteroid system Didymos.
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#HeraMission’s science team are busy processing images returned from today’s Mars flyby – including astrophysicist, stereoscopist & guitarist Dr. Brian May of Queen plus Dr. Patrick Michel. Images will be unveiled during tomorrow's webcast! esa.int/Space_Safety/H…

#HeraMission’s science team are busy processing images returned from today’s Mars flyby – including astrophysicist, stereoscopist &amp; guitarist <a href="/DrBrianMay/">Dr. Brian May</a> of <a href="/QueenWillRock/">Queen</a> plus <a href="/DrPatrickMichel/">Dr. Patrick Michel</a>. Images will be unveiled during tomorrow's webcast! esa.int/Space_Safety/H…
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YESTERDAY: #HeraMission performed its gravity-assist flyby of🔴Mars (& its Deimos moon) TODAY: Images from the close encounter will be unveiled in our webcast, starting 11:50 CET (10:50 GMT), with guests Alexander Gerst, Martian author Andy Weir, the Hera AI &..?

YESTERDAY: #HeraMission performed its gravity-assist flyby of🔴Mars (&amp; its Deimos moon)

TODAY: Images from the close encounter will be unveiled in our webcast, starting 11:50 CET (10:50 GMT), with guests <a href="/Astro_Alex/">Alexander Gerst</a>, Martian author <a href="/andyweirauthor/">Andy Weir</a>, the Hera AI &amp;..?
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LIVE in 100 minutes: the #HeraMission science team - including Dr. Brian May of Queen - will unveil the first images from yesterday's gravity-assist Mars flyby! youtube.com/live/cHiASEowr…

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WATCH NOW: #HeraMission's gravity-assist Mars & Deimos flyby images unveiled live by Hera's science team, including Dr. Brian May of Queen, joined by @astro_Alex & @AndyWeirAuthor! youtube.com/live/cHiASEowr…

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#HeraMission #Mars flyby… and here is #Deimos, so beautiful 🤩 the spacecraft is nominal and now heading to its final destination #didymos

#HeraMission #Mars flyby… and here is #Deimos, so beautiful 🤩 the spacecraft is nominal and now heading to its final destination #didymos
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The astronaut, the asteroid and Mars. 👨‍🚀☄️🔴 "I am very inspired by these images of Deimos and Mars – my second favourite planet – captured by the #HeraMission," says Alexander Gerst. "If we humans go to Mars one day and find traces of life, it would probably mean that the Universe

The astronaut, the asteroid and Mars. 👨‍🚀☄️🔴

"I am very inspired by these images of Deimos and Mars – my second favourite planet – captured by the #HeraMission," says <a href="/Astro_Alex/">Alexander Gerst</a>.

"If we humans go to Mars one day and find traces of life, it would probably mean that the Universe
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Any more questions about our #HeraMission Mars flyby? Why not ask our mission AI itself - the Hera Space Companion is ready to talk to you directly, featuring a brand new voice function! hera.space

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🔴 Our #HeraMission just flew by Mars, using the planet’s gravity to speed up towards its target asteroids. Wondering what it was like for the mission engineers to assemble Hera? Make one with LEGO🧱 – choose your favourite model and get building! 🔨

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This sped-up replay of the simulation that helped plan #HeraMission's gravity-assist Mars flyby on Wednesday now blends in actual Asteroid Framing Camera images acquired during the flyby, to compare simulation with observed reality!

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As #HeraMission flew past planet Mars it autonomously locked onto dozens of impact craters and other prominent surface features, tracking them over time, to test the self-driving technology the mission will employ to navigate around its target asteroids esa.int/Space_Safety/H…

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#BREAKING first time ever a spacecraft autonomously selected surface features and follows them enabling onboard vision-based navigation 🚀 Together with our partner GMV we have successfully tested it during the Mars flyby 👇🏻

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📽️Why does #HeraMission need autonomous surface feature tracking for self-driving, recently tested at🔴Mars? When Hera ventures closest to its target asteroid, it will have no other way of navigating: esa.int/Space_Safety/H…

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As the #HeraMission flew past planet Mars, we kept a close watch on Oxia Planum, the landing site for the ESA_ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission. Can you spot the area where Europe plans to land a rover to search for signs of life on Mars in 2030?

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All aboard for asteroid Apophis! ESA's Ramses mission aims to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis as it passes Earth in 2029. Ramses will deploy a CubeSat led by emxys team just a few kilometres from the surface of the asteroid to study it up close. esa.int/Space_Safety/P…