NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid… on purpose! Our DART mission is a first-of-its-kind Planetary Defense test to change the motion of an asteroid in space so that we could use this technique if an asteroid were ever discovered to be a threat to Earth.
Behind the Spacecraft: NASA’s DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test
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