The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a probe as part of a test that aims to help save the Earth from potential asteroid impacts, live images from the launch in Florida’s Cape Canaveral spaceport showed on Monday. Named after the Greek goddess of marriage, ESA probe Hera is set to survey the deliberate impact made by NASA spacecraft DART two years ago on an asteroid named Dymorphos. Researchers hope that the mission will provide valuable insights that could help protect Earth against asteroid impacts in the future. ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher called the mission “a step towards…