BREAKING: NASA has successfully slammed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid in a historic test of planetary defense.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test will help determine if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course.ByA NASA spacecraft on Monday intentionally slammed into an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to protect Earth from a potentially catastrophic collision with a space rock.
"Oh my goodness," said Elena Adams, a DART mission systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "We are showing that planetary defense is a global endeavor, and it is very possible to save our planet," Nelson said. Dimorphos measures 525 feet wide and orbits a much larger, 2,500-foot asteroid named Didymos. Neither Dimorphos nor Didymos pose a threat to Earth, according to NASA.and spent 10 months journeying to its asteroid target.
The DART mission is functioning as a proof-of-concept of asteroid deflection as a planetary defense strategy.
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