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First light: Hera resolves two asteroids instead of one

First light: Hera resolves two asteroids instead of one

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The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft for planetary defence has resolved its two target asteroids separately for the very first time, revealing the binary nature of the Didymos system, currently some 197 million km away from Earth.

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