NASA s DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday in the world s first test of a planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth.
extraordinary images from a mission like no other, as nasa s dart spacecraft closed in on an asteroid 7 million miles away from the earth. its aim to knock the space rock off course by smashing into it. three, two, one! cheering. oh, wow! now, at a nasa press conference, the mission team has confirmed that it s worked. and so, today, nasa confirms that dart successfully changed the targeted asteroid s trajectory. this mission shows that nasa is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us. telescopes on earth tracked the moving asteroid, capturing the moment of impact, revealing the rocky debris being hurled into space. and this image from the hubble space telescope revealed how the crash created a plume
NASA made the first test of its kind two weeks ago to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth s way and the Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, hurling debris out into space.
g7 leaders have reassured you grades president zelensky that they are steadfast in their commitment to ukraine during an emergency meeting. defender of the planet is quite a title, isn t it? it is one that nasser isn t it? it is one that nasser is claiming after its mission to deflect the course of an asteroid was successful. the spacecraft smashed into an asteroid millions of kilometres from earthjust asteroid millions of kilometres from earth just a few weeks ago and observations by telescope show that the orbit of that asteroid was shorted by half an hour as a result of the collision. extraordinary images from a mission like no other, as nasa s dart spacecraft closed in on an asteroid 7 million miles away from the earth. its aim to knock the space rock off course by smashing into it. three, two, one! cheering. oh, wow. now, at a nasa press conference, the mission team has confirmed that it s worked. and so, today, nasa confirms that dart successfully changed the targeted
stretches about 6,000 miles long. that s kind of the point of impact, that s the trail. check out this other image that nasa released yesterday at the briefing. this was taken by the small satellite that was trailing, spying on the dart spacecraft and that s the moment of impact. it s interesting that what nasa wants to study are the plumes of dust that come out from the moment of impact. what s next? that s the big question here. what nasa has done is proven this type of technology could work if there were ever a big earth killing asteroid potentially headed our way. this was not. the key is you have to detect it years in advance. far in advance so you can send a spacecraft like dart, hit it and push it 4% off its current orbit so that ultimately you can move its trajectory by a larger margin and hopefully save the planet, all of us.