Friday, November 15, 2024

Earth sure looks spooky in these ‘hyperspectral’ images from Europe’s Hera asteroid probe

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A strange Earth shines in new imagery captured by a European asteroid mission.

The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet to capture spooky views of Earth in multiple wavelengths of light. The imagery was captured fro roughly 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) away, using Hera’s HyperScout H hyperspectral imager.



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