

Raphael Marschall
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@SpaceMarschall
Postdoc @ObsCoteAzur, Nice (FR). Co-I of @CometIntercept, collaborator on @LucyMission, and @ESA_Rosetta. Previously @SwRi, @issibern & @unibern. (he/him)










#OTD last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by the first TWO of 11 asteroid targets! The images revealed that the first target was actually a binary pair, Dinkinesh and Salem. Follow Lucy’s journey and collect the postcards: lucy.swri.edu/Dinkinesh-Post…








Hera's first deep space manoeuvre is underway! On 23 October, @ESA_Hera fired its three orbital control thrusters for ~100 minutes to line it up for next year's gravity assist at Mars. A second, smaller burn on 6 November will be used to iron out any inaccuracy from the first.



There goes planet Earth… This short animated gif of our homeworld combines 45 images returned by #HeraMission’s Asteroid Framing Camera (acquired for instrument testing) to show approximately an hour and a half of our planet’s rotation, put together manually by AFC Principal Investigator Jean-Baptiste Vincent of @DLR_en




