Here's what we've learned from NASA's DART asteroid-slamming mission
NASA's DART mission, an attempt to discover if a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid off a collision course with Earth, has been described as a 'smashing success.'
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NASA's DART mission, an attempt to discover if a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid off a collision course with Earth, has been described as a 'smashing success.'
Scientists shared the latest results from the DART mission this week, six months after its impact into the asteroid Dimorphos.
The mission, focused on the Didymos-Dimorphos binary asteroid system, proved that an asteroid’s orbit can be altered by kinetic impactor technology. Rocks from space have walloped Earth for eons, and it’s only a matter of time until our planet lands yet again in the crosshairs of a very large asteroid. But unlike other forms of…
This 10-cm box will make history as the smallest radar instrument to be flown in space, highlights the European Space Agency, and it will be the first radar to probe the interior of an asteroid.
Smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid isn't NASA's usual approach to planetary science, but DART's impact was certainly an opportunity nonetheless.