Asteroid Struck by NASA Spacecraft Might Have Healed Itself
Rather than creating a crater, the collision caused the asteroid to reshape itself, thanks to its rubble-like ground.
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Rather than creating a crater, the collision caused the asteroid to reshape itself, thanks to its rubble-like ground.
When NASA's asteroid-diverting DART mission slammed into the tiny moonlet Dimorphos, it didn't just shift its orbit — it also almost completely changed its shape, new research suggests.
The tiny asteroid was left deformed after the spacecraft slammed into it at a high rate of speed.
Ground-based radar systems could play a major role in planetary defense, spotting asteroids on a cataclysmic collision course with Earth by bouncing radio waves off them to get position and velocity measurements.
(CNN) — When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022, the impact may have caused “global deformation” of the space rock, according