The NEOMIR mission aims to provide advanced warning for asteroids capable of devastating cities.
The European Space Agency aims to make the world safer with a spacecraft that can detect asteroids that the sun's glare would otherwise hide.
The plan is particularly important given the context that several unknown asteroids either impacted Earth or performed a close flyby of our planet in recent years.The NEOMIR mission will specialize in observing moderate-sized asteroids approaching Earth from the direction of the Sun. It will hopefully give us an adequate response time if a hazardous asteroid were to be detected.
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