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Spacecraft watches lonely Earth and moon fade into the distance

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86% Informative

The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon.

The two objects gradually shrink as Hera journeyed from 860,000 to 2.4 million miles away in October .

The car-sized spacecraft will rendezvous with the asteroid Dimorphos in December 2026 , at a distance of some 121,167,000 miles .

VR Score

90

Informative language

90

Neutral language

68

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

54

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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