{"id":794301,"date":"2025-03-12T10:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794301"},"modified":"2025-03-12T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:35:07","slug":"the-incredible-adventures-of-the-hera-mission-the-cosmic-roadtrip-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794301","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission \u2013 The cosmic roadtrip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Meet\u00a0Hera, our very own asteroid detective. Together with two 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>In September 2022 NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft tested if it was possible to divert an asteroid by giving it a shove \u2013 and found out that it was! Important knowledge, should we wish to avoid going the same way as the dinosaurs. Astronomers can observe from afar how the smaller asteroid\u2019s orbit has shifted since DART\u2019s impact, but there is still a missing piece of the puzzle if we want to fully understand how \u2018kinetic impacting\u2019 works in practice. Suitable for kids and adults alike, this episode of \u2018The Incredible Adventures of Hera\u2019\u00a0explains what ESA\u2019s asteroid detective and its CubeSat assistants are doing on their cosmic roadtrip through space towards the asteroid, and why it involves skimming close to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the other episodes of\u00a0<i>The Incredible Adventures of the Hera Mission<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The cosmic roadtrip | The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y2TnV3-RULc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/03\/The_Incredible_Adventures_of_the_Hera_mission_The_cosmic_roadtrip?rand=772185\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet\u00a0Hera, our very own asteroid detective. Together with two CubeSats \u2013 Milani the rock decoder and Juventas the radar visionary \u2013 Hera is off on an adventure to explore Didymos,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794301","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\/794301","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=794301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/794294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}