The NASA mission tested devices that could stop a future asteroid impact with earth.
This screengrab made from NASA live feed shows Dimorphos just before the Double Asteroid Redirection Test made impact with the asteroid, as watched by the NASA team at DART headquarters in Laurel, Md., Sept. 26, 2022.NASA has successfully tested its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, which collided with an asteroid Monday night.
will help scientists test technologies that could prevent a potentially catastrophic asteroid impact.The refrigerator-sized aircraft, launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last November, traveled roughly 7 million miles to reach its point of impact. On the receiving end of that collision was Dimorphos, a small asteroid that is the moon of a bigger space rock, Didymos.DART will record images with the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation.
The aircraft will not destroy Dimorphos but was expected to redirect the space rock onto a different flight path.
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