The Hera mission to follow-up on the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid crash has caught sight of two other asteroids in an important test of its camera ahead of its rendezvous its main target: the double space rock system of Didymos and Dimorphos.
In September of 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART for short, slammed into the small asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits the larger Didymos, to demonstrate how potentially hazardous asteroids that could one day be on a collision course with Earth could be bumped off their trajectories so they miss our planet.
