Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid Monday
2 years, 6 months ago

Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid Monday

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This illustration depicts NASA’s DART probe, foreground right, and Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube, bottom right, before impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, left. DART, the impactor Johns Hopkins took a minimalist approach in developing DART — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — given that it’s essentially a battering ram and faces sure destruction. An illustration depicts NASA’s DART probe on course to impact the asteroid Dimorphos, left, which orbits Didymos. Another spacecraft, Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, is loaded into NASA’s new moon rocket awaiting liftoff; it will use a solar sail to fly past a space rock that’s less than 60 feet next year.

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