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NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission

  • Written by David Barnhart, Professor of Astronautics, University of Southern California
NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – photos show the last moments of the successful DART missionDidymos (bottom right) and its smaller moonlet Dimorphos (center) were the targets of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test.NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

In a world first, NASA has crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – is meant to test...

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