This mission will allow humanity to learn how it can protect itself from a potential future threat by deflecting asteroids from their course.
The spacecraft that NASA sent to crash like a rocket into an asteroid last month managed to knock a space rock out of its natural orbit, a world first, the head of the US space agency announced tonight. .
This mission will allow humanity to learn how it can protect itself from a potential future threat by deflecting asteroids from their course.
From the telescope observations, presented by NASA at the press briefing, it appears that the DART spacecraft’s “suicide mission” on Sept. 26 accomplished its primary goal: altering the asteroid’s path through kinetic energy.
The DART spacecraft intentionally crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the satellite of a larger asteroid, Gemini. According to Bill Nelson, this impact reduced Dimorph’s orbit by 32 minutes.
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