NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022; Europe's Hera probe reaches impact site to investigate if Earth can be saved from space rocks

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ESA's Hera spacecraft has initiated its observations of the Didymos asteroid system following NASA's DART mission's collision with Dimorphos. This investigation seeks to analyze…

Humanity's first attempt to deliberately change the motion of an asteroid has entered a crucial new phase, with a European spacecraft reaching the site of NASA's historic collision to investigate what happened beneath the debris. According to the Associated Press, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft has begun close inspections of the Didymos asteroid system and its smaller moonlet Dimorphos, which NASA deliberately struck in September 2022 as part of a planetary defence experiment.

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