DART met its end on Monday, impacting the rough face of an asteroid almost 7 million miles away.
Humanity: 1, Asteroid: 0
NASA deliberately crashed its DART spacecraft into the Dimorphos asteroid on Monday. It's a test to see if it's possible to move a celestial body and prevent its collision with Earth. However, we'll have to wait to see if the mission was a success. Read what happens next and see the incredible final images of DART before its historic impact.
A Historic Impact for Earth
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Humanity now has the beginnings of a true defense against asteroids. At 7:14 EDT Monday night, something historic happened for the human species — and it took place more than 7 million miles from our planet. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully collided with the …
Rae Paoletta is the editorial director for the Planetary Society. Who ever thought crashing into space rocks could be so useful to science — and to the defense of humanity? On Monday, at 7:14 p.m. Eastern time, NASA will make history by forcing a kitchen-appliance-size cube to collide with an …
NASA has taken a major step toward protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids. The space probe came barreling in at thousands of miles per hour, its mechanical eyes locked on its target—an asteroid named Dimorphos. About an hour out, the asteroid looked to the probe’s cameras like nothing more than a …
Tech giant Google took it upon itself to launch its own type of celebration following NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully crashing into an asteroid on Monday evening. If you Google "NASA DART" or "NASA DART mission" it will trigger an animation featuring a spacecraft …
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