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En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth

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The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid.

The probe captured the first images of Earth and the moon 1.6 million kilometers, or nearly 1 million miles , away.

It's designed to survey the impact site of NASA 's successful asteroid-deflection test.

Hera will rendezvous with the impacted asteroid in December 2026 .

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86

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86

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58

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formal

Language

English

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53

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medium-lived

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