Artist’s rendering of the DART spacecraft approaching the asteroid. Drawing: Nasa DART’s demise is finally upon us, as the NASA spacecraft is on a collision course with the tiny asteroid Dimorphos. Here’s how you can watch this hugely important experiment to deflect an asteroid. Short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, the DART mission is the …
How to watch NASA’s DART spacecraft crash into an asteroid Read More »
Representation of DART (left) and LICIACube (right). Image: Italian Space Agency DART will not survive its mission to deflect an asteroid, but the recently deployed LICIACube, a tiny probe equipped with cameras, will document the encounter in great detail. from NASA Asteroid double redirect test (DART) is the space agency’s first demonstration of a defense …
NASA DART deploys camera probe ahead of asteroid impact Read More »
Representation of DART (left) and LICIACube (right). Image: Italian Space Agency DART will not survive its mission to deflect an asteroid, but the recently deployed LICIACube, a tiny probe equipped with cameras, will document the encounter in great detail. from NASA Asteroid double redirect test (DART) is the space agency’s first demonstration of a defense …
NASA DART deploys camera probe ahead of asteroid impact Read More »
Artistic representation of NASA’s DART probe and the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube in the Didymos binary system.Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben A NASA spacecraft called DART is about to deliberately crash into a small asteroid as part of a planetary defense test. While this space rock is nothing to worry about, what we learn from …
What to expect from NASA’s DART mission to deflect an asteroid Read More »
