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 https://gizmodo.com/high-tech-cube-asteroid-smashed-nasa-dart-1849715523
+== Europe’s Hera Probe Sends Back Its Closest View Yet of NASA’s DART Crash Site ==
+Strange grooves on asteroid Didymos may be fallout from NASA's historic asteroid smash.
+Passant Rabie - November 6, 2026, 3:45 pm ET
+Two years ago, Europe sent a spacecraft on a mission to investigate the aftermath of a human-instigated cosmic collision. Now, Hera is closing in on its destination, and it just sent back the first close-up view of its target.
+The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission snapped an image of the Didymos asteroid system from about 37 miles (60 kilometers) away. The black-and-white photo shows the side of Didymos that NASA’s DART spacecraft never got to see before it crashed into its smaller companion, Dimorphos. And, according to the team behind the mission, the asteroid looks very different from this side, with some features that may have been created in the aftermath of the impact.
+“The first thing we said was wow!” Patrick Michel, Hera principal investigator, said in a statement. “This feels like looking at a whole new world.”
+https://gizmodo.com/europes-hera-probe-sends-back-its-closest-view-yet-of-nasas-dart-crash-site-2000836333