📸 The Italian space agency released the first images of the immediate aftermath of NASA slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid in a first-of-its-kind experiment. Go deeper:
The undertaking — called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test — marked the first time humans have changed the course of a celestial body and was a major milestone inThe technology tested in the DART mission could one day be used to redirect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Asteroid strikes are rare, but an impact from a large space rock could cause significant citywide or regional damage.
Large streaks of Dimorphos' surface material, also called ejecta, can be seen in the images, as well as what appears to be a crater. Before the collision, scientists estimated that DART's crash would excavate a crater on the asteroid and blast between 22,000 and 220,000 pounds of ejecta, into space.It will take weeks of observing the asteroid duo to precisely determine how much the impact altered Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos.
The Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope and other ground telescopes were also focused on the system to observe the collision, so more images of the aftermath may be released.
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