NASA's DART mission: What to know about the impact
NASA will use its DART spacecraft to impact the faraway asteroid Dimorphos on Monday. The moonlet is nearly 7 million miles away from Earth and orbits Didymos.
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NASA will use its DART spacecraft to impact the faraway asteroid Dimorphos on Monday. The moonlet is nearly 7 million miles away from Earth and orbits Didymos.
NASA is deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to prove the possibility of deflecting space rocks using objects launched from Earth.
The DART spacecraft is now close enough to image the asteroid system it plans to slam into as part of NASA’s planetary defense efforts.
On Monday, in what seems like a scene out of a science fiction movie, NASA will slam a spacecraft into a distant asteroid to see whether it can nudge its orbit — all in an effort to test a way to protect Earth from any potential future threats.
American Space Agency NASA has built a spacecraft which will intentionally crash into a small asteroid named Dimorphos.