{"id":754019,"date":"2023-04-24T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754019"},"modified":"2023-04-24T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T13:30:00","slug":"what-colour-is-an-asteroid-hyperspectral-imager-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754019","title":{"rendered":"What colour is an asteroid? Hyperspectral imager to find out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hera_her_CubeSats_and_their_rocky_target_destination_card_full-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What colour is an asteroid? The latest instrument being prepared for ESA\u2019s Hera mission for planetary defence will observe its target Dimorphos asteroid in a range of colours far beyond the limits of the human eye. In the process Hera\u2019s HyperScout H hyperspectral imager will help prospect the asteroid\u2019s mineral makeup \u2013 in the process helping to deduce how best to deflect future asteroids which might one day endanger Earth.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Space_Safety\/Hera\/What_colour_is_an_asteroid_Hyperspectral_imager_to_find_out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What colour is an asteroid? Hyperspectral imager to find out<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What colour is an asteroid? The latest instrument being prepared for ESA\u2019s Hera mission for planetary defence will observe its target Dimorphos asteroid in a range of colours far beyond&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754020,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754019","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\/754019","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=754019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}