BREAKING: 'Today, NASA confirms that DART successfully changed the targeted asteroid's trajectory,' NASA chief says. Read more:
October 11, 2022, 2:32 PMNASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system showed in this undated illustration handout.NASA successfully disrupted the orbit of an asteroid in a mission last month that tested a strategy to defend against a potential asteroid headed toward Earth, the agency said on Tuesday.
On the receiving end of that collision was Dimorphos, a small asteroid that is the moon of a bigger space rock, Didymos. "It was expected to be huge success if it only slowed by 10 minutes," Nelson said. "It was a bull's eye." "All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet," Nelson said. "After all, it's the only one we have."
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