First impact of a human device on an asteroid. dart mission
It is the first attempt to deflect an asteroid through the impact of a ship that has been sent within NASA's Dart mission, which occurred on Tuesday 27 around 7 a.m. in the morning time in Venezuela.
The retransmission was not easy, because the retransmission occurred almost 11 million kilometers from the earth, the impact of the 500 kg Nasa Dart spacecraft against the dimorphic asteroid, which is a tiny asteroid that is 360 to 170 meters in diameter. and it orbits a larger one called Didimos, about 780 meters in diameter.
Souce Image just before impact
This mission is essential because firstly, the sooner we have the appropriate technology for planetary defense, the better, we must not leave everything to the last day, secondly, because if we know and know where the large asteroids are, we cannot say the same about the small ones those of a few hundred meters that can cause a lot of damage, an asteroid of 150 meters can completely destroy a city and one of those of that size could appear at any time to one there are many that have not been discovered and that from time to time when they can cause us a scare.
Souce twiiter ATLAS Project
There is another ship apart from the one that has impacted, it is a cubesat, a mini satellite and that is the one that is going to give us images of what has obviously happened, the ship that has crashed against Dimorphos because it has been destroyed and we no longer can offer more images than those last photos we've seen of those dimorphic rocks.
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