[NEWS] Five D-Brief space links: 65803 Didymos, Mars, Charon, V883 Ori, LHA 120-N 180B

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• D-Brief looks at the exciting Hera mission planned by the European Space Agency to binary asteroid 65803 Didymos in 2026, some years after a NASA experiment there.


• D-Brief notes that the CubeSats brought to Mars with the InSight mission have gone silent.


• Can features of the surface of Charon be explained by a subsurface ocean escaping and flooding? D-Brief considers.


• D-Brief reports that the ALMA radiotelescope has found clouds of organics around young star V883 Ori.


• D-Brief looks at the massive jet, dozens of light years long, issuing from a young star in the nebula LHA 120-N 180B in the Large Magellanic Cloud.