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[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...

[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 ...