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ESA’s Hera mission will be humanity’s first science mission to take a detailed look at a binary asteroid: the 800 m-diameter Didymos is accompanied by a 170 m-diameter secondary body, Dimorphos. Hera will study the aftermath of the impact caused by the NASA spacecraft DART on the smaller body. Image Credit: ESA-Science Office CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

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