"Hera will measure the mass of Dimorphos, which will give us a more accurate estimate of how efficient this technique was in deflecting the asteroid," Michael Kueppers, Hera project scientist at ESA,
Apart from the images taken by the CubeSat LICIACube which was part of the payload on the mission, two of NASA s great observatories and our sharpest eyes in space have sent images of the mission the way they saw the DART collision
The Italian Space Agency's LICIACube spacecraft has captured the first images of the collision that aims to give Earth a new planetary defence technology.
Nasa crashed its $344 million Dart spacecraft on an asteroid, intentionally. The crash is aimed at giving Earth a defence tool against future asteroids headed our way.