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Dimorphos in sight: Europe's Hera probe gets its 1st look at battered space rock (photo)

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Europe's Hera planetary defense spacecraft is closing in on the binary asteroid system targeted by NASA's DART deflection test, and can now tell the two rocky bodies apart.

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