‘A new era’: NASA DART mission strikes asteroid in key test of planetary defense
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Testing out its planetary defense capabilities, NASA successfully conducts the DART mission after crashing into asteroid Dimorphos.
NASA's DART spaceship on Monday struck the asteroid Dimorphos in a historic test of humanity's ability to prevent a cosmic object from devastating life on Earth.Impact occurred at 7:14 pm Eastern Time (2314 GMT), 10 months after the Double Asteroid Redirection Test probe blasted off from California to carry out its first-of-a-kind experiment. "We're embarking on a new era, an era in which we potentially have the capability to protect ourselves from something like a dangerous hazardous asteroid impact," said Lori Glaze, director of NASA's planetary science division. The 530-foot (160-meter...