NASA’s DART Mission successfully changed the course of an asteroid. What next?

NASA’s DART Mission successfully changed the course of an asteroid. What next?

DART mission success “All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it’s the only one we have. This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us. NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet. This is a watershed […]

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Asteroid Dimorphos has 10,000 kilometre-long tail of debris after DART crash

Asteroid Dimorphos has 10,000 kilometre-long tail of debris after DART crash

Two days after the impact, astronomers at the Lowell Observatory and the US Naval Academy took this image of Dimorphos using the 4.1-metre Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope at the NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. It shows a vast dust trail that is pushed in one direction due to the Sun’s radiation pressure, […]

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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successful: DART crashes into Dimorphos

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successful: DART crashes into Dimorphos

NASA’s DART spacecraft, DART Mission Success: The DART spacecraft successfully crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos at 4.44 AM IST on September 27. With the collision, humanity’s first planetary defence test has been completed successfully in a mission that went exactly as planned without any hitches. “We already knew the images would be spectacular but I […]

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NASA’s DART: Humanity’s first planetary defence system test

NASA’s DART: Humanity’s first planetary defence system test

NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft is scheduled to crash into the asteroid Dimorphos at approximately 7.14 PM EDT on September 26 (4.44 AM IST on September 27). The mission will test a method that could be used to redirect asteroids that pose a threat to our planet. Using the impact of a massive […]

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