NASA’s DART Mission Successfully Changes Asteroid’s Shape in Groundbreaking Planetary Defense Experiment

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In 2022, when NASA’s 5 million spacecraft crashed into an asteroid called Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour, cheers and applause erupted back on Earth. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection (DART) mission deliberately targeted Dimorphos to change its orbit around a larger asteroid, Didymos, as a suit exercise to thwart a deadly space rock that might … Read more