En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth

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But on the way there, the probe looked back home, capturing views of isolated Earth and the moon floating in space.

The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid.

The aim of the mission is to fully grasp how NASA's DART mission (short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test), which proved humanity can alter the path of a potentially menacing asteroid, affected the 525-foot-wide (160-meter) asteroid Dimorphos.

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