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First light: Hera resolves two asteroids instead of one
Source: Phys.org · Published
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense has resolved its two target asteroids separately for the first time, revealing the binary nature of the Didymos system, currently some 197 million km (122 million miles) away from Earth.
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