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DART's goal was to shorten an asteroid's orbit by at least 73 seconds, although scientists hoped the effect would be more like 10 minutes. But the first calculations are in, and DART blew those milest
NASA's DART spacecraft impacted with an asteroid and the James Webb Space Telescope witnessed it go out with a bang
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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!
The test will help scientists learn how to stop catastrophic asteroid impacts.
The craft traveled 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) and hit just 56 feet (17 meters) off center.