NASA's DART spacecraft dislodged two million lbs of debris when it slammed into an asteroid

That information is 'key to designing a mitigation strategy for a planetary defense scenario.'

Soon after, scientists also discovered a massive double tail coming off of Dimorphos. That tail is made up of debris from the impact flung into space, also known as ejecta. It measures a massive 6,000 miles in length. Follow-up observations have since revealed that DART displaced approximately two million pounds of debris in this ejecta.According to NASA, this new information is vital in the context of momentum transfer.

In other words, studying this momentum transfer via the ejecta flowing from Dimorphos could one day save humanity in an asteroid collision scenario. That is, after all, why NASA slammed a roughly

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