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Sep 28, 2022
Image above: Image captured by the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube a few minutes after the intentional collision of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, captured on Sept. 26, 2022. Image Credits: ASI/NASA.
Image above: Image captured by the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube a few minutes after the intentional collision of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, captured on Sept. 26, 2022. Image Credits: ASI/NASA.
Image above: Image captured by the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube a few minutes after the intentional collision of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, captured on Sept. 26, 2022. Image Credits: ASI/NASA.
DART impacts asteroid moon Dimorphos seen from central asteroid Didymos (Illustration by ESA)
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Related links:
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test): https://www.nasa.gov/dart
Planetary Defense: https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense
Italian Space Agency (ASI): https://www.asi.it/en/
Asteroids: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/main/index.html
Images (mentioned), Animation (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/Tricia Talbert.
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