THE SHAPE OF DIMORPHOS AS SEEN BY LICIACUBE LUKE IMAGES

The LICIACube ASI mission has been designed to acquire images of the Didymos- Dimorphos binary asteroidal system and of the plume generated by the DART-Dimorphos impact soon be- fore and soon after this impact, happened on 26th September 2022. In order to better witness this event, LUKE camera, onboard LICIACube, has been commanded to acquire images in a peculiar way, i.e., triplets of images at different exposure times is shoot in a very short time range and they were separated from each other from 1 to 6 seconds, depending on the distance from the tar- get. In this way it has been possible to accurately cap- ture details of both asteroid surfaces and plume dynamics and, differently from what the DRACO camera onboard DART, LICIACube has been allowed to take images of both hemisphere of Dimorphos [1].