The spacecraft that NASA I sent Deliberately collides like a missile into an asteroidThe head of the US Space Agency announced last month that the space rock was removed from its natural orbit, something that is happening for the first time in the world.
this mission It would allow humanity to learn how to protect itself from a potential threat in the future by keeping asteroids off course.
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From telescope observations, provided by NASA at the press conference, it appears that the “suicide mission” of the DART spacecraft on September 26 achieved its primary goal: to alter the asteroid’s path through kinetic energy.
“This mission shows that NASA strives to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “I think NASA has proven that we are serious defenders of the planet,” he told reporters.
The DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid Demorphos, the satellite of a larger asteroid, Gemini. According to Bill Nelson, this effect reduced Dimorph’s orbit by 32 minutes.
The experiment was conducted at a distance of about 11 million kilometers (7 million miles) from Earth.
“We all have a responsibility to protect our planet. In the end, it’s all we have.”
“This finding is an important step toward understanding the full impact of the DART effect on an asteroid target,” said Laurie Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at Headquarters in Washington. “With new data coming in every day, astronomers will be able to assess whether a mission like DART could be used in the future and how it could be used to help protect Earth from an asteroid collision if we find one on our way.” we”.
“DART has given us some great data on the properties of asteroids and the effectiveness of the Kinematic Collider as a planetary defense technology,” he said. Nancy Chabot DART coordination leader from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. “The DART team continues to work on this rich data set to fully understand this first test to defend against planetary asteroid deflection.”
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