{"id":772692,"date":"2023-11-13T06:59:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=772692"},"modified":"2023-11-13T06:59:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:59:51","slug":"cometary-sights-and-sounds-the-planetary-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=772692","title":{"rendered":"Cometary sights and sounds | The Planetary Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hera spacecraft is fully assembled. <\/strong>The European Space Agency\u2019s mission will visit Didymos and Dimorphos to study the after-effects of the DART mission\u2019s impact on Dimorphos in 2022, which modified the asteroid moonlet\u2019s orbit around its parent asteroid Didymos and sent a plume of debris thousands of kilometers out into space. Hera is now fully assembled and is on track to launch in October 2024. <em>Pictured: An artist\u2019s impression of Hera and the two smallsats it will deploy at Dimorphos. Image credit: ESA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/sites\/planetary\/images\/image_library_sun.png\" alt=\"Sun\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>India has launched a mission to study the Sun. <\/strong>Following the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organization has launched another exploration mission, this time to the Sun. Aditya-L1 will study the Sun\u2019s upper atmosphere, coronal mass ejections, solar wind and magnetic fields, as well as other phenomena.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/the-downlink\/cometary-sights-and-sounds?rand=772267\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hera spacecraft is fully assembled. The European Space Agency\u2019s mission will visit Didymos and Dimorphos to study the after-effects of the DART mission\u2019s impact on Dimorphos in 2022, which&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planetary-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772692","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=772692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/772693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}