ESA’s Hera spacecraft is performing a flyby of Mars as we speak at 5000 km altitude at 12:51 UTC (8:51 a.m. EDT). Hera will also fly 300 km above Deimos. The gravity assist will shift Hera's trajectory towards its final destination of the Didymos binary asteroid system, which was impacted by NASA's DART spacecraft in 2022. There will be a live event tomorrow at 10:50 UTC (06:50 EDT) by Hera’s science team with talks and images. https://www.youtube.com/live/cHiASEowrio https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Watch_live_Images_from_Hera_s_Mars_flyby #Space #ESA 1/n