An asteroid hurtles toward Earth, threatening to end all human life. It's a plot Hollywood has obsessed over for years. NASA wants to make sure it never actually happens. Read more:
September 26, 2022, 11:28 AMThis illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system.An asteroid hurtles toward Earth, threatening to end all human life. It's a plot Hollywood has obsessed over for years. NASA wants toOn Monday, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, will collide with an asteroid at high speed in a test of that exact scenario.
Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.The aircraft will not destroy Dimorphos but it is expected to redirect the space rock onto a different flight path.
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