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HyperScout H Instrument Delivers Unique Views of Earth

Images Captured as Hera Spacecraft Travels into Deep Space

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Tom Patton
Nov 05, 2024
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A multiplicity of planet Earths was delivered in a series of images from ESA’s Hera spacecraft as it travels to the Dimorphos asteroid.

“To quote Carl Sagan, all our lives are contained within these few pixels.”
Marcel Popescu, University of Craiova in Romania

The HyperScout H is a hyperspectral imager that observes its targets in more colors than the hu…

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