NASA’s Earth Information Center at the Smithsonian
09 Oct
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NASA’s Earth Information Center at the Smithsonian

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NASA Space Technology Monika LuabeyaOct 08, 2024NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, preview the agency’s new Earth Information Center exhibit on Monday, Oct. 8, 2024. This new exhibit is the Earth Information Center’s second physical location.The exhibit at the Smithsonian includes a 32-foot-long, 12-foot-high video wall displaying Earth science data visualizations and videos, interpretive panels showing Earth’s connected systems, information on our changing world, and an overview of how NASA and the Smithsonian study our home planet. It opens to the public Tuesday, Oct. 8, and will remain on display through 2028.Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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ESA Launches Probe to Revisit Asteroid Crime Scene
09 Oct
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ESA Launches Probe to Revisit Asteroid Crime Scene

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NASA Space Technology The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is en route to assess how NASA’s 2022 DART mission impacted the asteroid Dimorphos. DART smashed into the asteroid at a little over 6 kilometers per second, sending out a cloud of debris and slowing it slightly. Hera’s detailed post-collision survey aims to tell us just how efficient the kinetic impact was. This will inform the design of planetary defense missions, should we need to defend Earth from an asteroid threat.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Hera lifted off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October and is now on a journey, via a flyby of Mars in 2025, to asteroid Didymos and its minute moon Dimorphos. Arrival at the binary asteroid system is scheduled for December 2026.DART impacted the 151-meter-diameter Dimophos back in 2022, reducing its...
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Europe’s Hera Mission Launches to Visit an Asteroid Smacked by NASA

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NASA Space Technology October 8, 20243 min readHera will arrive in 2026 at Dimorphos, an asteroid deliberately struck by NASA’s DART spacecraftBy Elizabeth Howell & SPACE.comESA’s Hera mission lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, on 7 October at 10:52 local time. ESA - S. CorvajaA unique asteroid mission is underway.The European Space Agency's Hera mission launched today (Oct. 7) at 10:52 a.m. EDT (1452 GMT), riding a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in coastal Florida.ESA's Hera spacecraft soared into a cloudy sky above Florida to begin a multimillion-mile trek across the solar system to the binary asteroid system Didymos, which became famous in September 2022 after NASA smacked its DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Mission) into Didymos' smaller companion, Dimorphos. That...
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