EPSC Abstracts
Vol. 17, EPSC2024-268, 2024, updated on 03 Jul 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2024-268
Europlanet Science Congress 2024
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Legacy of the DART Mission: Looking Forward to Hera

Anne Raugh, James Bauer, Tilden Barnes IV, and Ludmilla Kolokolova
Anne Raugh et al.
  • PDS Small Bodies Node, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully impacted Dimorphos, the moon of the Didymos double-asteroid system, on 26 September 2022. The resulting data sets collected and relayed to Earth from DART and its companion Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube), as well as observations from four ground-based observatories following the impact and its aftermath, have been archived with the Small Bodies Node of the Planetary Data System. In anticipation of the October 2024 launch of the ESA mission Hera, set to investigate the aftermath of the DART collision in detail, we provide an overview and guide to the data legacy the DART mission has bequeathed to its successor.

How to cite: Raugh, A., Bauer, J., Barnes IV, T., and Kolokolova, L.: Legacy of the DART Mission: Looking Forward to Hera, Europlanet Science Congress 2024, Berlin, Germany, 8–13 Sep 2024, EPSC2024-268, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2024-268, 2024.