The tiny Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) spacecraft captured the moment of NASA s DART spacecraft colliding with an asteroid in all its messy glory.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was launched last November ahead of a year-long journey to crash into the small asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger one called Didymos.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was launched last November ahead of a year-long journey to crash into the small asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger one called Didymos.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was launched last year ahead of an almost year-long journey to crash into the small asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger one called Didymos.
It is the US space agency s first ever attempt at such a mission and will involve a spacecraft crashing into an asteroid 6.8 million miles from Earth at 15,000mph in two weeks time.