{"id":11321,"date":"2024-06-25T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T22:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/nasa-selects-participating-scientists-to-join-esas-hera-mission\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T18:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T22:03:12","slug":"nasa-selects-participating-scientists-to-join-esas-hera-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/nasa-selects-participating-scientists-to-join-esas-hera-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join ESA\u2019s Hera Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join ESA\u2019s Hera Mission<\/h2>\n

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NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join ESA\u2019s Hera Mission<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NASA has selected 12 participating scientists to join ESA\u2019s (European Space Agency) Hera mission, which is scheduled to launch in October 2024. Hera will study the binary asteroid system Didymos, including the moonlet Dimorphos, which was impacted by NASA\u2019s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)<\/a> spacecraft on Sept. 26, 2022. The objectives of DART and Hera collectively aim to validate the kinetic impact method as a technology to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, if one is ever discovered, and to learn more about the near-Earth asteroids that are the source of this natural hazard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This artist\u2019s concept shows ESA\u2019s Hera spacecraft and its CubeSats in orbit around the Dimorphos moonlet. NASA has selected 12 participating scientists to join the Hera mission.<\/div>\n
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Hera is scheduled to arrive at the Didymos\/Dimorphos binary asteroid system at the end of 2026, where it will gather otherwise unobtainable data about the mass and makeup of both bodies and assess the changes caused by the DART spacecraft\u2019s kinetic impact.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The goal of NASA\u2019s Hera Participating Scientist Program is to support scientists at U.S. institutions to participate on the Hera mission and address outstanding questions in planetary defense and near-Earth asteroid science. The participating scientists will become Hera science team members during their 5-year tenure with the mission.<\/p>\n

The newly selected participating scientists are:<\/p>\n