A new ESA mission is heading back to the asteroid nudged off course when it crashed a spacecraft onto its surface last year.
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00:14 >> The HERA mission is ESA's first mission to an asteroid,
00:18 and a very special asteroid that was impacted by the NASA mission DART to test
00:24 for the first time if we can deflect an asteroid and protect Earth from asteroids.
00:29 What HERA will do is to complement the NASA mission by gathering all the information
00:35 the scientists need to validate numerical impact code, which means to be able
00:41 to design a mission in the future should an asteroid come toward us.
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01:07 >> The HERA mission for the first time will bring a radar, which will allow us
01:11 to get the internal structure of the asteroid, and will bring a suit of instruments
01:16 like a thermal camera, a multispectral camera to understand the properties of this asteroid.
01:21 And this is fundamental information to complement the data from DART in order to be able
01:27 to use this technique in future asteroids.
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