🌍 NASA’s DART Mission & The Future of Planetary Defense 🚀 NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) was the world’s first real test of planetary defense. In 2022, the spacecraft deliberately crashed into an asteroid called Dimorphos to see if we could change its orbit. And it worked — proving that humanity can, in fact, push an asteroid off its collision course with Earth. This is only the beginning of planetary defense. Future systems could include: Stronger impactors to deal wit

Here is the moment the DART mission impacts the asteroid Dimorphos as seen by ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System). This clip is the speeded up version of a 2 hour long event. You can clearly see the dust cloud from the Dart impact in the video | Perth Observatory

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