Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
The liftoff of ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence is only the start… Its launch will be followed by a two-year cruise to the Didymos binary asteroid system. Next will come a sequence of deep space manoeuvres, including a swingby of Mars to acquire extra velocity to aid the rendezvous with Didymos.
Credits: ESA - European Space Agency
#Asteroids #Hera #ESA
The liftoff of ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence is only the start… Its launch will be followed by a two-year cruise to the Didymos binary asteroid system. Next will come a sequence of deep space manoeuvres, including a swingby of Mars to acquire extra velocity to aid the rendezvous with Didymos.
Credits: ESA - European Space Agency
#Asteroids #Hera #ESA




![Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Shaking
Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot, a storm larger than Earth, has fascinated astronomers for over 150 years. But thanks to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, we’re now seeing this legendary storm in a whole new light. Recent observations show that the Great Red Spot is wobbling and fluctuating in size.
Captured in high-resolution images over 90 days, Hubble’s data reveals the storm speeding up, slowing down, and changing shape—surprising even seasoned scientists. The team predicts that the storm will continue to shrink and eventually stabilize, but right now, it’s still full of dynamic surprises.
Discover how these new findings could help us understand extreme weather not just on Jupiter, but on Earth and distant exoplanets too. Watch the video to see Hubble’s latest footage of this mysterious storm!
For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble.
Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer
Music Credit:
“Digital Discovery” by Claude Samard [SACEM], and Universal Production Music.
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