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Dart spacecraft will collide with Dimorphos on Tuesday with aim to deflect the asteroid.

The DART mission is set to crash on an asteroid in a few days, but before it reaches its destination, it has used Jupiter as a practice target.

DART will crash into Dimorphos later this month.

Nasa is ready to crash its Dart mission into an asteroid to test a technology to deflect future asteroids headed towards Earth.

The spacecraft will impact a known asteroid that is not a threat to Earth.

The DART mission will hit an asteroid in less than 100 days to demonstrate a new technology that can deflect future asteroids headed towards Earth.

While NASA's DART mission will reach its targeted asteroid in late 2022, China is working on its own program to deflect asteroids.

The capture of the first image and successful sendoff to Earth is a major milestone for the spacecraft, indicating the nominal health of the mission.

The DART mission will target an asteroid as engineers and astronomers aim to create a defence system able to deflect potential asteroids headed towards Earth.

LLNL Simulations of NASA’s DART spacecraft, which will crash into asteroid Dimorphos in fall 2022, show the differences between modeling the full spacecraft geometry and a spherical approximation of the spacecraft. Credit: Mike Owen, Spheral ASPH code. Ten scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) last week took part in the 7 th IAA Planetary Defense Conference (PDC), hosted by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs in cooperation with the European Space Agency....