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Debris from NASA's DART Mission left a 10,000 km trail seen by SOAR Telescope. See how the mission's debris looks like, read here now!

A new image shows that an asteroid which was deliberately struck by NASA’s DART spacecraft, last week, left a comet-like trail of debris stretching thousands of kilometres. According to reports, the image was taken two days after the asteroid had been crashed into by the probe and was captured by a telescope in Chile. 

The new image shows that the asteroid struck by the spacecraft has left a trail of debris which stretches as far as 10,000 kilometres.

Enough time has passed since the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted its target asteroid for the dust to have settled on this pie...

The dust tail it ejected is a whopping 10,000 kilometers long.

Hubble plans to monitor the Didymos-Dimorphos system 10 more times over the coming weeks.

Astronomers intend to keep monitoring the asteroid’s dust trail by using the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope. 04.10.2022, Sputnik International

Last week, the world watched as a live video feed from a spacecraft went dark as it struck an asteroid. Now, scientists can see the impact the spacecraft bore.

An uncrewed spacecraft smashed into an asteroid last week in an effort to deflect the space rock.

It was captured using the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope in Chile - just one of the many observatories on Earth watching out for the impact.