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☄ Announcing Ramses, Europe's future envoy to an asteroid 🛰 In April 2029, the asteroid #Apophis will pass within 32 000 km from Earth’s surface. Visible to the naked eye, the flyby of this 375-meter giant calls for a unique European mission to study an asteroid as its physical characteristics are altered by Earth’s gravity: #RamsesESA. The European Space Agency - ESA’s Space Safety programme has received permission to begin preparatory work for its Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses). Scientists will learn a lot about an asteroid inner composition and structure, which is critical to improve our ability for #PlanetaryDefence. "The Ramses mission concept reuses much of the technology, expertise and industrial and science communities developed for the Hera mission", explains Paolo Martino, leading ESA's Ramses effort. Coordinated from #ESOC, ESA’s #SpaceSafety programme sees this mission as a unique opportunity for science, planetary defence and public engagement. Learn more about this novel mission 👉 https://lnkd.in/eFtrs2G6
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1moThat's a real cool mission, which will ignite the curiosity of 100s of million people on Earth, when flying by in tandem formation with the asteroid.