NASA’s DART Mission Slams Into Asteroid
The vending machine-sized DART spacecraft reached its target, Asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos, and promptly slammed into Dimorphos. But that’s okay. That’s what it was supposed to do. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission involved a test of a proposed asteroid redirect method. Now Earth-based telescopes will spend the next several months studying … [Read more…]