A bright flash and a plume of fragments: the first pictures of the consequences of the impact of the DART probe on an asteroid were obtained.
NASA and a number of terrestrial observatories have published the first images taken at the moment of impact of the NASA DART kamikaze probe on the asteroid Dimorph. The images show a bright flash and the subsequent scattering of fragments, turning the rammed asteroid into a kind of comet.
On Earth, the collision was recorded on September 27. More interesting data came from the LICIACube cubesat, which separated from the DART probe on September 11 and followed it at some distance. There are two cameras on board the cubesat - one with a wide and the second with a narrow field of view. The device must record both the volume of debris ejected as a result of the impact on the asteroid, and will try to take a picture of the resulting impact crater… Detail: https://bitcoingrandee.com/news NEWS
Tomorrow night, the NASA DART kamikaze probe will crash into an asteroid - you can watch it online.
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, in which a spacecraft crashes into an asteroid to change its flight path, is coming to its logical conclusion. The DART kamikaze probe will collide with the asteroid Dimorph next night, September 27th.
The DART planetary protection mission is being implemented to test the possibility of changing the flight path of space objects potentially dangerous to the Earth. The kamikaze probe went into flight in November 2021. During his journey, he approached a system of two asteroids located at a distance of about 11 million kilometers from our planet. The Didim and Dimorph objects have different sizes: the diameter of the first is 780 meters, and the second is 160 meters. They do not pose a danger to the Earth, so the DART mission is of purely scientific interest… Detail: https://bitcoingrandee.com/news NEWS