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WATCH history being made: NASA crashes spacecraft against Asteroid Dimorphos
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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WATCH history being made: NASA crashes spacecraft against Asteroid Dimorphos

[ad_1] NASA reaches a historic milestone by crashing the DART spacecraft into the Dimorphos. Watch the video. In the early hours of September 27, NASA did something historic. The US space agency took a spacecraft packed with the latest tech, remotely operated it and took it 6.8 million miles away and then intentionally crashed it into an asteroid at the speed of 14400 miles per hour. The Double Asteroid redirection Test or the DART mission is one of the most ambitious projects of NASA because it does not directly serve the purpose of exploration of space but rather developing a defense mechanism to protect us from a planet killer asteroid strike. And today's mission was an important step in that direction. Read on to know the...
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Did the historic NASA DART crash change the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos?
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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Did the historic NASA DART crash change the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos?

[ad_1] Now that the historic NASA DART mission has been successfully completed, how long will it take to know whether asteroid Dimorphos has changed its orbit? Just a few hours ago, the historic NASA DART mission came to an exciting and successful conclusion as the designated spacecraft, moving at the speed of 22,500 kilometers per hour, smashed into the asteroid Dimorphos. The mission was being conducted to test the planetary defense capabilities of NASA. While the asteroid itself was not a threat to the Earth, the test mission is supposed to help the space agency in collecting data in real-world conditions to see by what margin can the orbit of an asteroid be shifted if a high-velocity spacecraft crashes into it. But this d...
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‘A new era’: NASA DART mission strikes asteroid in key test of planetary defense
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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‘A new era’: NASA DART mission strikes asteroid in key test of planetary defense

[ad_1] 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...
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NASA DART Mission to crash into an asteroid on purpose; WATCH it live- Know how
7Sep By adminNo Comments
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NASA DART Mission to crash into an asteroid on purpose; WATCH it live- Know how

[ad_1] As the world's 1st planetary defence test, NASA's DART Mission is all set to crash into an asteroid on September 26, 2022. Here is how you can watch it live. NASA will be conducting the world's 1st planetary defence test on September 26 with its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission. NASA with its DART Mission will crash a spacecraft into a non-hazardous asteroid to test the same. If you want to watch the historic collision then you can know that NASA will be broadcasting it live. But how will we know that the mission worked or not? To get the answer of the same, NASA's researchers and scientists visited Lowell Observatory, one of many observatories globally that will monitor the impact, to know about the sam...
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