Why NASA Is Throwing Satellites At ASTEROIDS..
3NASA Just SLAMMED Into An Asteroid And Filmed The Crash..
Welcome back to Tech Vault. While most folks were sitting down for supper, NASA tried to move a space mountain. Beyond sight for backyard stargazers, a spacecraft the size of a vending machine self-destructed by ramming into a harmless asteroid shortly after 7 p.m. ET Monday. The high-speed crash was part of the U.S. space agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART.
NASA broadcast the US$330 million carefully orchestrated collision, giving viewers a deer-in-headlights experience. Through a camera on the spacecraft, the team of scientists and engineers, as well as the general public, were able to watch a 525-foot rock grow from a mere dot of light to a rocky egg-shaped boulder blotting out the whole frame. The feed almost unfolded in real time, with perhaps just a 45-second delay, delivering an extreme closeup of an event happening 6.8 million miles away. It was the first time anyone had ever actually seen what Dimorphos looked like, and teammates were delighted to finally get a look — this asteroid they had only known through data. Check this video out!
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