Have you searched NASA DART on Google yet? You ought to. Here’s why
Live MintDid you happen to search NASA DART on Google today? If a user types in the word “NASA DART” on the search toolbar of the Search engine's homepage, they will get the search results and a fun animation. Search for 'NASA DART' on Google to see a demonstration of browser, uh, planetary defense," NASA tweeted. Humanity's first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body played out in a NASA webcast from the mission operations center outside Washington, D.C., 10 months after DART was launched. The livestream showed images taken by DART's camera as the cube-shaped "impactor" vehicle, no bigger than a vending machine with two rectangular solar arrays, streaked into the asteroid Dimorphos, about the size of a football stadium, at 7:14 p.m. EDT some 6.8 million miles from Earth.