Geologist and Planetary Scientist 🌍 🪐 | Postdoctoral Researcher and Adj. Prof. @UA_Universidad | @ua_cplanetarias | Team of #Hera #RAMSES space missions 🛰|
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Joined October 2010
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Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
Questa sequenza di immagini, ripresa dalla fotocamera principale di @ESA_Hera (Asteroid Framing Camera), mostra il veicolo spaziale mentre si avvicina a Didymos nel corso del mese di ottobre, fino al punto in cui riesce a distinguere chiaramente entrambi gli asteroidi. 👇
This sequence of images from its main Asteroid Framing Camera shows Hera getting closer to Didymos during October - until the point it can resolve both asteroids clearly esa.int/articles/about-us/di…
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
Mars may be volcanically active, say scientists who have linked evidence of gases often produced by magma with photographs of fresh fissures found on the surface of the Red Planet.
No puedo dejar de verlo. Y eso que el equipo de la misión #Hera llevamos días analizando ya imágenes. Volvemos a Didymos y Dimorphos después de cuatros años 🪨🪨 tenemos mucho trabajo, pero estamos realmente mocionados. Todos atentos al próximo 25 de noviembre para más detalles!
Closing in on Didymos. ☄️
Our planetary defence mission Hera has captured its first close-up of the binary asteroid system, 60 km away, as it prepares to investigate the aftermath of DART’s historic impact with Dimorphos.
Detailed images of both asteroids are coming on 25 November.
Read more: esa.int/articles/about-us/di…
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
The European Space Agency’s Hera mission for planetary defence has acquired its first close-up of the Didymos binary asteroid system! 🛰️🪨🪨
esa.int/articles/about-us/di…
ALT Main Didymos asteroid in space with largely shaded Dimorphos asteroid around it
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
¡Nuestra nave Hera ya puede ver Didymos y Dimorphos como dos asteroides separados! ☄️
A medida que se acerque, estudiará los efectos del impacto de DART de la NASA en 2022 y contribuirá al desarrollo de la desviación de asteroides como técnica de defensa planetaria.
Las primeras imágenes detalladas de Dimorphos están previstas para el 25 de noviembre.
Sigue el viaje de Hera con Hera Space Companion. 👇
Our Hera spacecraft can now see Didymos and Dimorphos as two separate asteroids!
Coming closer, it will study the effects of NASA's 2022 DART impact and help advance asteroid deflection as a planetary defence technique.
The first detailed images of Dimorphos are expected on 25 November.
Follow Hera’s journey with the Hera Space Companion 👉 hera.esa.int
🔗esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Fi…
ALT Hera's first view of the separate Didymos and Dimorphos asteroids
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
🛰️🪨After 2 years in deep space, ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence is closing in on its target - Dimorphos, the 1st object in the Solar System to have had its orbit changed by human action, when NASA's DART impacted it in 2022
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
At last ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defence has come close enough to resolve both bodies in the Didymos binary asteroid system separately - the smaller one was deflected by NASA's DART back in 2022 esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Fi…
ALT Dimorphos seen separate from the larger Didymos by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera from 1280 km away
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
Hera’s second braking manoeuvre yesterday proved successful, reducing the spacecraft’s velocity relative to the Didymos and Dimorphos system by 70 m/s from a distance of 2300 km away.
Some 90% of the 31-minute thruster firing took place in the early morning, followed by a cross-check of performance, with the remaining 10% occurring that afternoon.
Hera is now moving at 20 m/s relative to the asteroids; a trio of smaller ‘transition’ manoeuvres this coming week will reduce Hera’s relative velocity down to near zero.
hera.esa.int/
ALT Hera spacecraft flying through space
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
Congrats to @JAXA_En on MMX! By returning samples from Phobos, Mars’ larger moon, the mission will add to decades of Mars exploration and help shape future discoveries and potential crewed missions to the Red Planet.
[Press Release]
Launch result of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft aboard H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.10
global.jaxa.jp/press/2026/10…
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
Próxima parada: Fobos y Deimos 🚀
MMX ha despegado con éxito desde Tanegashima (Japón). Su misión es observar las enigmáticas lunas de Marte, recoger una muestra de la superficie de Fobos y traerla de regreso a la Tierra. 🌍✨
Next stop: Phobos & Deimos 🌑
MMX has successfully launched from Tanegashima, Japan. Its mission is to observe Mars’s mysterious moons, collect a sample from Phobos's surface and return it to Earth.
👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Image…
@JAXA_en @NASA @CNES DLR @ESA
Todo preparado para el lanzamiento de la misión MMX hacia las lunas de Marte. Le deseamos mucha suerte a los compañeros científicos de esta misión 🚀
Mientras, la nave Hera @esa está a tan solo unos días de llegar a su destino. Pronto, ¡más información! 🪨🪨
The H3-24L rocket, carrying the MMX spacecraft, has arrived at the launch pad! 🚀 It can be seen quite clearly from Minamitane Town on Tanegashima 👀 Surrounded by a vivid blue sky and ocean, the MMX mission is just a few hours from liftoff! 💪 #MMXLIFTOFF 10.20 at 04:41:03 JST
ALT The H3 launch vehicle on the launch pad
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
The H3-24L rocket, carrying the MMX spacecraft, has arrived at the launch pad! 🚀 It can be seen quite clearly from Minamitane Town on Tanegashima 👀 Surrounded by a vivid blue sky and ocean, the MMX mission is just a few hours from liftoff! 💪 #MMXLIFTOFF 10.20 at 04:41:03 JST
ALT The H3 launch vehicle on the launch pad
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
La sanidad pública en España es una maravilla que no se entiende hasta que no sales fuera del país.
Trabajar todos juntos para ayudar al compañero que necesita recuperarse en el peor momento es el gesto mas patriotico que se puede tener. Hay que defenderla con uñas y dientes.
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
Read about Hera's forthcoming arrival at the Dimorphos asteroid in this space.com feature: space.com/space-exploration/…
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
Comienza el encierro en la Facultad de CC. de la Información de la Complutense contra los recortes de Ayuso a las universidades públicas.
Un cartel de Maricarmen corona el encierro.
Mañana toda la comunidad educativa se levanta en la Huelga Educativa.
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
Hera imagery of Deimos gathered during last year's flyby is helping to guide MMX observations - godspeed!
📣Launch announcement
The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is set to launch on a H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center at 21:41 CEST on 19 October 2026 👉esa.int/Science_Exploration/…
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ALT Infographic explaining the MMX mission (part 1) in the style of a comic strip. At the top we see several logos: ESA, JAXA, NASA, DLR and CNES. Below there are three panels showing a timeline of the mission: October 2026 launch, August 2027 arrival at Mars, September 2027 arrival at Phobos. Two other panels show the mission observing Phobos from orbit and scouting for a landing site for the rover and a sample retrieval sites, and the release of the Idefix rover.
ALT Infographic explaining the MMX mission (part 2) in the style of a comic strip. Several panels show the mission collecting samples from Phobos, the return module separating from the exploration module, dropping a capsule over Australia and a scientist holding the samples. A last panel lists the scientific questions scientists hope to answer using the samples: 'Where did Mars's moons come from?', 'What can they tell us about habitability in the Solar System?', and 'How has Mars and its environment changed over time?'.
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
Are we there yet? 😜
After eight years in space, Bepi and Mio can finally say: almost! Send them a #WelcomeToMercury message and you could win a trip to ESA in Darmstadt, Germany, this December.
Say hello 👇
esa.int/WelcomeToMercury
ALT Illustration showing BepiColombo cartoon characters Bepi and Mio waving. To the left of the characters, a text reads ‘Welcome BepiColombo to Mercury!’. On the lower part of the image, we see part of planet Mercury on the left, and the hashtag WelcomeToMercury on the right.
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
Launching on 19 October, @JAXA_en's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will attempt a world-first sample return from Mars’s moon Phobos. We're contributing deep-space communication technology and ground station support to help make the mission possible.
Read more: esa.int/Science_Exploration/…
ALT MMX at Mars and Phobos
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
It has long been recognized that millions of women, especially younger women, are disproportionately affected by pain disorders.
In a new #ScienceReview, researchers synthesize recent advances in understanding these conditions. scim.ag/3VcRS4H
Laura Parro (PhD) retweeted
🚀 Nuestra nave de defensa planetaria Ramses ha sido activada por primera vez, un importante hito de cara a su lanzamiento en 2028.
La misión conjunta ESA-JAXA se encontrará con el asteroide Apophis y lo estudiará durante su excepcional acercamiento a la Tierra en abril de 2029. ☄️🌍
Our Ramses planetary defence spacecraft has been switched on for the first time, a major milestone on the way to its 2028 launch.
The ESA-JAXA mission will rendezvous with asteroid Apophis and study it during its exceptionally close flyby of Earth in April 2029.
🔗esa.int/Space_Safety/Planeta…
