{"id":92099,"date":"2026-11-12T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hera-reaches-dimorphos-to-measure-aftermath-of-nasas-2022-asteroid-strike\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:40:11","slug":"hera-reaches-dimorphos-to-measure-aftermath-of-nasas-2022-asteroid-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hera-reaches-dimorphos-to-measure-aftermath-of-nasas-2022-asteroid-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Hera Reaches Dimorphos to Measure Aftermath of NASA&#8217;s 2022 Asteroid Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mission follows directly from DART, which deliberately struck the asteroid in 2022 to test whether a spacecraft collision could alter an asteroid&#8217;s path. Hera&#8217;s arrival marks the next phase of that experiment, returning to the same target to assess what the impact actually did.<\/p>\n<p>Hera has started close inspections of Dimorphos, the asteroid struck by DART. The spacecraft is conducting its observations four years after the collision. Its goal is a detailed assessment of the deflection&#8217;s effects on the asteroid.<\/p>\n<p>DART demonstrated that a spacecraft could hit an asteroid. Hera&#8217;s work quantifies how well that collision worked, data described as essential to designing any real planetary defense response. The mission closes the loop on the first full-scale planetary defense experiment.<\/p>\n<p>With Hera now at Dimorphos, its detailed measurements of the impact effects are the next milestone in the planetary defense effort begun by DART.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission follows directly from DART, which deliberately struck the asteroid in 2022 to test whether a spacecraft collision could alter an asteroid&#8217;s path. Hera&#8217;s arrival marks the next phase of that experiment, returning to the same target to assess what the impact actually did. Hera has started close inspections of Dimorphos, the asteroid struck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}