Nasa’s Dart spacecraft has crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos 6.8m miles from Earth in the space agency’s first “planetary defence test”.
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Dart (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) collided head-on with an asteroid the size of a football stadium on Monday in an unprecedented full-scale test of Nasa’s capacity to defend Earth from a doomsday scenario.
The test was humanity’s first attempt at moving another celestial body, to see if a large asteroid hurtling towards Earth could be diverted.
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Dart (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) collided head-on with an asteroid the size of a football stadium on Monday in an unprecedented full-scale test of Nasa’s capacity to defend Earth from a doomsday scenario.
The test was humanity’s first attempt at moving another celestial body, to see if a large asteroid hurtling towards Earth could be diverted.
Nasa successfully crashes spacecraft into asteroid in planetary defense test ► https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/26/nasa-spacecraft-asteroid-crash-planetary-defense-test
Nasa successfully crashes spacecraft into asteroid in ‘planetary defense test’ – live ► https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2022/sep/26/nasa-dart-mission-asteroid-redirect
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