DART & HERA, NASA/ESA Asteroid Redirection Missions |
DART & HERA, NASA/ESA Asteroid Redirection Missions |
Sep 26 2022, 11:18 PM
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Sep 26 2022, 11:20 PM
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-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Sep 26 2022, 11:22 PM
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Wow! Takes me back to 14 years old....
And that thin streak on the lower left (top of an enormous boulder, just barely in the Sun?) Now we wait for LICIACube (and Hera, eventually) |
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Sep 26 2022, 11:27 PM
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Sep 26 2022, 11:37 PM
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Sep 26 2022, 11:40 PM
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Sep 26 2022, 11:40 PM
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Sep 26 2022, 11:41 PM
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Sep 26 2022, 11:42 PM
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Top of a huge boulder, mostly in shadow?
Press conference in about 15 minutes. |
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Sep 26 2022, 11:44 PM
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What is that light "bar" on the lower left side of Dimorphos? Present in multiple images, doesn't seem to be a camera artifact. Another object behind Dimorphos? The illuminated rim of a relatively large crater (or some other depression). For example like here: |
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Sep 27 2022, 12:01 AM
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Sep 27 2022, 12:19 AM
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-------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Sep 27 2022, 12:32 AM
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Fascinating fact from the presser: looks like the ion engine would have been used in the case of a miss to hit Didymos 2 years from now for a second attempt!
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Sep 27 2022, 12:33 AM
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Sep 27 2022, 12:55 AM
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