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Flyby #1 is happening tonight! 🔭

Where and when to see these Mars-bound spacecraft from your location: go.nasa.gov/4sFegAc
science.nasa.gov NASA’s Twin ESCAPADE Spacecraft to Slingshot Past Earth on Way to Mars - NASA Science In a few days, NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) will perform a maneuver that no agency spacecraft has flown before —
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NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft swing past Earth one by one on Nov. 6-7 and 8-9 on their way to Mars.

Have a telescope? You may be able to spot each spacecraft in the hours before each flyby as a faint dot drifting slowly east to west. 🔭

Star charts for locations across the U.S.: go.nasa.gov/4ySFuEV
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Tantalizing!
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Closing in on Didymos. ☄️

Our planetary defence mission Hera has captured its first close-up of the binary asteroid system, 60 km away, as it prepares to investigate the aftermath of DART’s historic impact with Dimorphos.

Detailed images of both asteroids are coming on 25 November.

Read more: esa.int/articles/about…
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