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This spacecraft is headed to NASA's asteroid-crash aftermath — but first, it'll stop by Mars
After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...
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Debris From NASA Asteroid Collision May Hit Mars
Main image, the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos that was impacted by DART. Inset ... if doing so could successfully deflect a space rock from a collision with Earth. A paper in the journal Nature ...
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Nasa’s DART spacecraft has crashed into an asteroid: how might this protect Earth from potential destruction?
Nasa launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft in November 2021 ... protect Earth from the possibility of a hazardous collision with an asteroid. This particular asteroid ...
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Nasa's Dart asteroid crash 'exceeded expectations'
The American space agency's Dart probe has smashed into an asteroid, destroying itself in the process. The collision was intentional and designed to test whether space rocks that might threaten ...
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NASA destroyed an asteroid and now it might collide with Mars
Dimorphos, the smaller of the two, is orbiting its larger companion asteroid Didymos, and after the collision of the DART spacecraft, which was traveling at extremely high speeds, Dimorphos' orbit ...
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NASA's 'Armageddon' mission backfires! DART asteroid deflection test created a cloud of giant boulders that are set to crash into Mars
orbiting a larger asteroid called Didymos. After the DART collision, Dimorphos orbited Didymos in 11 hours and 23 minutes - 32 minutes less time than it took before the spacecraft had crashed into it.
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NASA's Asteroid-Hitting DART Mission Shrinks Dimorphos Orbit, Changing its Shape
Following the historic collision between NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft and a 560-foot-wide asteroid on September 26, 2022, the mission demonstrated the efficacy of ...
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Nasa spacecraft set to smash into asteroid in planetary protection test mission
The spacecraft, known as Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart ... from Earth when the collision happens. Dart will accelerate at about 15,000 miles per hour (24,140 kilometres per hour ...
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Can we stop an asteroid from hitting Earth?
She was the Coordination Lead on NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. Chabot is a planetary scientist who is such a big deal that she got an asteroid named after her.
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Debris From NASA Asteroid Collision May Hit Mars
The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in September ... so could successfully deflect a space rock from a collision with Earth.