Hollywood has made many sci-fi movies about asteroids(小行星) crashing into Earth and destroying us all. The U.S. space agency NASA may have an answer to this end-of-the-world possibility. It has tested a spacecraf
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He was talking after NASA launched its first mission to deflect an asteroid. The DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft, built with the sole purpose of being crashed against "moonlet" Dimorphos, left California in the late hours of the evening to head towards the asteroid an...
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“DART will target Dimorphos, the much smaller ‘moonlet’ of a binary (two-body) asteroid system,”Kachele said. “Didymos, the primary body, safely orbits the sun and comes close enough to Earth such that scientists can observe it using ground-based telescopes. The dynamic of the binary...
launch activities for the agency’s first planetary defense test mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). The mission will help determine if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course. DART’s target asteroid is not a ...
NASA crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. The asteroid strike happened about 11 million kilometers from Earth. The experiment tested a method for changing the orbit of some asteroids to prevent ...
Congratulations on successfully crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid!— SpaceX (@SpaceX)September 26, 2022 The main goal of planetary defense is to protect humanity’s home planet from asteroids, a threat that has routinely caused mass-extinction events throughout the multibillion-year history ...
由NASA发射的DART(戏称“打他”)航天器,成功撞击距地1100万千米的一颗小行星。 以往只能在《星际迷航》《独行月球》等科幻片里才能看到的场景,这次真真儿地在现实上演。 而NASA此次演习的目的也与科幻片如出一辙,正是为了防止近地小行星撞击地球带来的威胁做准备。
NASA said the DART spacecraft will achieve the kinetic impact by deliberately crashing itself into the asteroid at a speed of approximately 6 km/s. It also said the collision will change the speed of the moonlet in its orbit around the main body by a fraction of 1 percent, enough to be...