{"id":735743,"date":"2022-09-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=735743"},"modified":"2022-09-22T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T12:00:00","slug":"the-incredible-adventures-of-the-hera-mission-creating-a-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=735743","title":{"rendered":"The incredible adventures of the Hera mission \u2013 Creating a crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:02:36<\/p>\n<p>Meet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/hera\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hera<\/a>, our very own asteroid detective. Together with two small CubeSats \u2013 Milani the rock decoder and Juventas the radar visionary \u2013 Hera is off on an adventure to explore Didymos, a double asteroid system that is typical of the thousands that pose an impact risk to planet Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Suitable for space enthusiasts young and old, this episode of \u2018The incredible adventures of the Hera mission\u2019 is all about craters. What are they? Why are they important? Why is NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft about to collide with an asteroid to create the Solar System\u2019s newest \u2013 and perhaps most important \u2013 crater? And why do we need Hera to unveil the secrets of this crater?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Sets\/The_Incredible_Adventures_of_the_Hera_mission\/(result_type)\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch the other episodes of <i>The incredible adventures of the Hera mission<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2022\/09\/The_incredible_adventures_of_the_Hera_mission_Creating_a_crater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The incredible adventures of the Hera mission \u2013 Creating a crater<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:02:36 Meet\u00a0Hera, our very own asteroid detective. Together with two small CubeSats \u2013 Milani the rock decoder and Juventas the radar visionary \u2013 Hera is off on an adventure&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}