The Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope simultaneously snapped the asteroid Dimorphos in the aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Test
The Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope both caught the aftermath of the DART missionThe two most powerful telescopes in service have both taken images of the same small asteroid. The Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope simultaneously snapped the asteroid Dimorphos in the aftermath of NASA’sThe DART spacecraft slammed into Dimorphos on 26 September in an attempt to change its orbit around the larger asteroid Didymos.
The aim of the DART mission is to test whether we would be able to use a similar spacecraft to deflect an asteroid were it headed towards Earth – Dimorphos is completely harmless, making it a good test subject. To figure out how the test went, researchers will analyse how much Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos changed, as well as the material properties of the asteroid.
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