Caught On Camera: Final Moments From NASA Mission As Spacecraft Rams Into Asteroid
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NASA launched its DART spacecraft in November 2021 with the express purpose of colliding with an asteroid.
On Monday, a NASA Spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid approximately 7 million miles (10.9 million kilometres) from Earth. The mission aimed to deflect the asteroid's orbit, was successfully achieved in a historic test of humanity's ability to prevent a celestial object from devastating life on Earth. IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion's DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth. pic.twitter.com/7bXipPkjWD Don't want to miss a thing? Watch the final moments from the #DARTMission on its collision course with asteroid Dimporphos. pic.twitter.com/2qbVMnqQrD
NASA launched its DART spacecraft in November 2021 with the express purpose of colliding with an asteroid about the size of a football stadium at 14,000 miles per hour. "In case you're keeping score: humanity 1, asteroids 0," Tahira Allen, a NASA spokesperson, said during the live stream after the impact.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor hit its target, the space rock Dimorphos, at 7:14 pm Eastern Time (2314 GMT), 10 months after blasting off from California on its pioneering mission.
