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Miracle! NASA deflects GIGANTIC 530-foot asteroid with DART mission, can save Earth now
12Oct By adminNo Comments
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Miracle! NASA deflects GIGANTIC 530-foot asteroid with DART mission, can save Earth now

[ad_1] NASA has confirmed that its first attempt at planetary defense against a destructive asteroid has miraculously succeeded. NASA's first attempt at planetary defense against potentially world-destroying asteroids was a miraculous success, the space agency has revealed. NASA's DART Mission is a nearly $330 million first step to protect Earth from potential asteroid impact. The aim of the Double Asteroid Detection Test or DART test was to smash a spacecraft into the Dimorphos asteroid to deflect it away from its path. In fact, there are two asteroids involved. According to NASA, Dimorphos is a gigantic 530-foot asteroid, which orbits an even larger asteroid called Didymos, nearly 5 times its size. Lori Glaze, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in ...
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NASA asteroid collision mission and its significance | Explained
28Sep By adminNo Comments
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NASA asteroid collision mission and its significance | Explained

[ad_1] Do you know why NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid millions of kilometers away? Here’s all about NASA’s DART Mission. After months of anticipation, NASA finally conducted its first planetary defense test on September 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT by smashing its spacecraft into an asteroid located millions of kilometers away. Now, asteroids are usually found orbiting the Sun in the main asteroid belt near Jupiter. NASA said its target asteroid did not pose any risk to Earth at all. Then why did the space agency spend hundreds of millions of dollars to smash a spacecraft into the asteroid? What is NASA's DART Mission and what does the space agency aim to achieve by colliding its spacecraft with a space rock?NASA's DART Mi...
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NASA’s DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defense test
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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NASA’s DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defense test

[ad_1] NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defense test. NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday in the world's first test of a planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth.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 ...
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Bam! NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid in defense test
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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Bam! NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid in defense test

[ad_1] A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.The galactic grand slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 9.6 million kilometers away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the small space rock at 22,500 kph. Scientists expected the impact to carve out a crater, hurl streams of rocks and dirt into space and, most importantly, alter the asteroid's orbit. Telescopes around the world and in space aimed at the same point in the sky to capture the spectacle. Though the impact was immediately obvious — Dart's radio sig...
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Humanity 1, asteroids 0: NASA Craft Rams Distant Asteroid in Test of Earth Defense
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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Humanity 1, asteroids 0: NASA Craft Rams Distant Asteroid in Test of Earth Defense

[ad_1] A NASA spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid 10.9 mn km from Earth. A NASA spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid approximately 6.8 million miles (10.9 million kilometers) from Earth in a test to determine if the impact can nudge the space rock slightly off course. NASA launched its DART spacecraft in November 2021 with the express purpose of colliding with an asteroid about the size of a football stadium at 14,000 miles per hour. “In case you're keeping score: humanity 1, asteroids 0,” Tahira Allen, a NASA spokesperson, said during the livestream after the impact. The mission is NASA's first demonstration of the agency's planetary-defense initiative to protect Earth from the possibility of...
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NASA DART mission made Earth asteroid proof? History made, but there is a catch; tech on it
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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NASA DART mission made Earth asteroid proof? History made, but there is a catch; tech on it

[ad_1] NASA has successfully carried out an asteroid collision with its DARTH mission spacecraft. However, there is a catch. NASA today recreated Armageddon, one of the great sci-fi movies of all-time, by trying to deflect an asteroid off its course with the help of its amazing technology in the form of its spacecraft. The Bruce Willis starrer had depicted what would happen if an asteroid threatens to impact Earth and how nukes were used. With the help of its DART mission, NASA successfully crashed its spacecraft into Asteroid Dimorphos to try and deflect it from its course. However, there is a catch. While the asteroid collision was successful, there is no clarity as yet whether the asteroid was actually deflected. For that,...
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Space Suicide! NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft nears planned impact with its target
26Sep By adminNo Comments
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Space Suicide! NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft nears planned impact with its target

[ad_1] NASA's asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft nears planned impact with its target asteroid Dimorphos. Ten months after launch, NASA's asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft neared a planned impact with its target on Monday in a test of the world's first planetary defense system, designed to prevent a doomsday collision with Earth.The cube-shaped "impactor" vehicle, roughly the size of a vending machine with two rectangular solar arrays, was on course to fly into the asteroid Dimorphos, about as large as a football stadium, and self-destruct around 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) some 6.8 million miles (11 million km) from Earth. The mission's finale will test the ability of a spacecraft to alter an asteroid's trajectory with sheer ki...
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Watch LIVE: NASA to deflect asteroid in key test of planetary defense
26Sep By adminNo Comments
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Watch LIVE: NASA to deflect asteroid in key test of planetary defense

[ad_1] Watch LIVE: NASA will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid. Watch LIVE on YouTube: NASA will on Monday attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth.The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California last November and is fast approaching its target, which it will strike at roughly 14,000 miles (22,500 kilometers) per hour. To be sure, neither the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, nor the big brother it orbits, called Didymos, pose any threat as the pair loop the Sun, pa...
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Historic! NASA DART mission to deflect giant 560-foot asteroid today
26Sep By adminNo Comments
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Historic! NASA DART mission to deflect giant 560-foot asteroid today

[ad_1] NASA's DART mission is set to take place today in a bid to deflect an asteroid from its course. Here’s what you need to know about this NASA mission. Apocalyptic movies like Armageddon, Deep Impact and even Armageddon have explored the possibility of total annihilation when an asteroid threatns to strike Earth. These “What Ifs” of world destruction have always captured the minds of sci-fi geeks. But what if an asteroid actually comes towards Earth? Would our planet survive or would there be total annihilation? It seems NASA scientists have similar queries as the space agency has got its test ready to conduct its first ever planetary defense test and it is all happening today. NASA has had a plan in the works for a l...
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Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?
23Sep By adminNo Comments
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Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?

[ad_1] In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. A spacecraft named Dart will zero in on the asteroid Monday, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph). The impact should be just enough to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion space rock — demonstrating that if a killer asteroid ever heads our way, we'd stand a fighting chance of diverting it.“This is stuff of science-fiction books and really corny episodes of “StarTrek” from when I was a kid, and now it's real,” NASA...
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