DART Spacecraft Successfully Crashes into Asteroid Dimorphos
Recently, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully crashed into a distant asteroid Dimorphos at hypersonic speed in a test of the world's first planetary defence system.
- This was the first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body.
- The mission was devised to determine whether a spacecraft is capable of changing the trajectory of an asteroid through sheer kinetic force, nudging it off course just enough to keep our planet out of harm's ....
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