NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
Hello! In this blog, I'll be talking about NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). This project was the first of its kind, with NASA trying for the first time in history to deflect an asteroid. With this project being successful, NASA confirmed that we have a way to defend ourselves from a once certain impact with an asteroid or object from space. Here's a link : https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-dart-mission-hits-asteroid-in-first-ever-planetary-defense-test This project, which was executed just last week, on the 26th of September, was successful! The satellite that NASA sent to crash into Dimorphos (the asteroid) successfully located and reached the boulder by itself. It used the D idymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO) to capture the last images of the asteroid before crashing into it. Dimorphos is actually a moonlet of another asteroid, the Didymos boulder. NASA is hoping to capture the effects...