EurekAlert!1 年
The asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by NASA's DART (IMAGE)
The DART spacecraft streamed these images from its DRACO camera back to Earth in real time as it approached the asteroid. DART successfully impacted its target on September 26, 2022. Credit ...
来自MSN11 个月
Asteroid Struck by NASA Spacecraft Might Have Healed Itself
The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was slammed into by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in September 2022, in an attempt to test how much a collision would deflect space rocks.
Forbes3 个月
Asteroid-Seeking Spacecraft Snaps Poignant Views Of Earth
ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...
BBC2 年
Nasa's Dart spacecraft 'changed path of asteroid'
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) took place some 11 million km (7 million miles) from Earth. It saw the refrigerator-sized Nasa satellite drive straight into Dimorphos at 22,000km/h (14 ...
BBC3 年
Nasa Dart asteroid spacecraft: Mission to smash into Dimorphos space rock launches
Asteroid impact risks 'underplayed' "Dart will only be changing the period of the orbit of Dimorphos by a tiny amount. And really that's all that's needed in the event that an asteroid is ...
Rocket blasts off into space to investigate asteroid rammed by spacecraft
Hera is a planetary defence mission from the European Space Agency (ESA) that will investigate the Dimorphos asteroid. In ...
Business Today3 个月
'Changed orbit': SpaceX to launch ESA’s asteroid mission to study aftermath of NASA's ...
SpaceX is set to launch the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft, designed to study the asteroid Dimorphos, today (Oct. 7). The mission will assess the impact made by NASA's DART (Double ...