Earth from Space: Sentinel-2 captures Sentinel-2

Published on September 6, 2024
The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite captured this image over Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 2 September, just ahead of the Sentinel-2C launch. Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite captured this image over Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 2 September, just ahead of the Sentinel-2C launch.
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Debris from DART impact could reach Earth

September 6, 2024
In 2022 NASA’s DART spacecraft made history, and changed the Solar System forever, by impacting the Dimorphos asteroid and measurably shifting its orbit around the larger Didymos asteroid. In the process a plume of debris was thrown out into space.The latest modelling, available on the preprint server arXiv and accepted for publication in the September volume of The Planetary Science Journal, show