Dimorphos
Watch a Nicely Stabilized Video of DART Flying Past Didymos and Slamming Into Dimorphos
Here’s one of the best videos we’ve seen of the last minutes of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission…
2 years ago
This is the Last Thing DART saw as it Smashed Into its Asteroid Target
The first-ever planetary defense technology demonstration mission successfully conducted its mission, slamming into the surface of a distant asteroid and…
2 years ago
The World’s Ground Stations are Getting Ready to Watch a Spacecraft Crash Into an Asteroid Next Week!
On Monday, Sept. 26th, the DART mission will collide with an asteroid to test a method of planetary defense. The…
2 years ago
DART Sees Asteroid Didymos for the First Time. In two Weeks, it’ll Crash Into its Moon
The Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) took its first picture of the asteroid system it will collide with later this…
2 years ago