NASA’s DART Spacecraft Gets First Look At Asteroid It Will Smash Into To Save Earth

NASA’s DART Spacecraft Gets First Look At Asteroid It Will Smash Into To Save Earth
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has captured its first images of its deep space target. The journeyed spacecraft is on a mission to crash into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos, in order to collect data on a spacecraft being used to deflect an asteroid for planetary defense.

While there are currently no

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