Piluca Caballo and Gerhard Paar presented their work on the 3D-GIS (Geographical Information System) of the European mission Hera to the double asteroid system Didymos 2026/27 last week at the Hera International Workshop at the ESA Technology Center ESTEC in Noordwijk / Netherlands in front of about 150 participants.
The Hera 3D-GIS is being developed in Austria by JOANNEUM RESEARCH together with VRVis (Vienna) and is the central component for the selection and 3D visualization of the Hera camera images and 3D data products, which will enable the understanding of the controlled impact of the American DART probe in September 2022 on the asteroid moon Dimorphos, the survey and characterization of the resulting crater, as well as the recording planning for the instruments of the probe during its approach phase of several months in a three-dimensional context. Hera will be used to develop and refine possible strategies to defend against catastrophic meteorite impacts on Earth.
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