NASA’s DART Mission Crashes Spacecraft Into Asteroid In Test to Defend Earth

Asteroids, you will have an issue … people!!!

NASA simply efficiently examined a brand new means to defend Earth from probably harmful asteroids … by crashing a spacecraft right into a floating area rock.

The area company carried out its $325 million DART mission Monday within the last frontier, with an area probe purposefully colliding with an asteroid to ship it in a special path.

The mission was broadcast dwell throughout the globe, there have been cameras on the entrance of the probe because it crashed into the asteroid, and mission management went bonkers when the probe efficiently made influence, redirecting the asteroid.

NASA’s DART probe — an acronym for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — is being examined to see simply how a lot a spacecraft can alter an asteroid’s trajectory just by crashing into the darn factor. Only people might dream this up.

The take a look at of the futuristic planetary protection know-how was carried out on a innocent asteroid, Dimorphos, some 6.8 million miles from Earth.

Meanwhile, at mission management, Bill Nye was watching in real-time.