Just in case you missed yesterday's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impact, here is a sped-up version of the last five-and-a-half minutes of images from the spacecraft before it went boom. DART is a mission designed to test the kinetic impactor method of deflecting asteroids. Basically, we want to know if we can move asteroids on course for Earth by hitting them really, really hard. Yesterday's target was the asteroid moon Dimorphos. It orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos, which is vi

29K views · 1.4K reactions | 直落拾 NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (#DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system on Sept. 26, 2022. See the final moments of the spacecraft's existence and reaction from the team at John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. Read more about the #DARTMission: https://trib.al/tERaV4q : NASA | Space.com | Facebook