Sep 12, 2022
NASA to see if spacecraft can deflect deadly space rocks to crash into asteroids
NASA to see if spacecraft can deflect deadly space rocks to crash into asteroids
On September 26 this year, NASA will purposefully crash a spacecraft into an asteroid – to see what happens next. Credit social media It’s the first step toward a practical solution if an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth — a mission to push potential doomsday asteroids onto less-threatening flight paths. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently took a first look at…
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