DART Mission Scientists have recently released the observati | UPSC Mains 2023 Materials
DART Mission
Scientists have recently released the observations made during the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. NASA's DART mission was a spacecraft designed to test a method of deflecting an asteroid for planetary defense, using the "kinetic impactor" technique (in simplest terms means smashing a thing into another thing). DART was the first-ever space mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor. The target of the spacecraft was a 160-meter-wide asteroid known as Dimorphos, which is a moonlet in orbit around the larger asteroid, Didymos. It was launched in November 2021. DART spacecraft successfully collided with Dimorphos on 26 September 2022, altering the asteroid's orbit by 33 minutes. It is the first time humanity intentionally changed the motion of a celestial object in space.
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