DART Successfully Impacts Asteroid Dimorphos
BULLSEYE! NASA's DART spacecraft just smashed into asteroid Dimorphos --an incredible, dramatic bullseye 7 million miles from Earth. Here was the final picture DART took of the asteroid's boulder-strewn surface:
Anyone watching NASA's live stream of the event would have to agree--NASA still has the right stuff. Congratulations to the DART mission team!
Now more hard work begins. Astronomers on Earth will be monitoring Dimorphos's orbit to find out if it has changed in response to DART's impact. Stay tuned.
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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.
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