A wonderful testament to the power mankind can produce when we put our funding towards science.
1 month ago | 50
Driving a space fighter "jet" through that! The absolute dream!!!!
1 month ago | 5
That experiment showed that it might be easier to deflect an asteroid from the earth than we first thought.
1 month ago | 9
Still amazes me on what can do in space an now science fiction is science fact remember watching with my 10 year old daughter an she sucks it all up when comes to space
1 month ago | 3
Still think changing the luminosity aka painting of a potential impacter is our best bet over shooting it.
1 month ago | 1
This is just an amazing video! Its so interesting to me how complicated these sorts of experiments can be. All of the research that went into this one rocket, and yet we cant predict what kind of surface it will hit. The cone of dust and rock is beautiful...
1 month ago | 1
Astrum
I just wanted to share this, as I thought it was super cool!
The University of Maryland just released these incredible images from NASA’s DART mission, showing the moment DART impacted the asteroid moon Dimorphos. The images were captured by the LICIACube spacecraft, and you can see the main asteroid Didymos moving across the frame from upper left to upper right as LICIACube flies by.
The impact on Dimorphos created an epic plume of dust and rocks, shooting out in this asymmetric cone pattern full of filaments and streams of material. Scientists think DART hit a rocky surface covered in large boulders, which got shattered and blasted out in directions they didn’t expect.
What’s really striking is how this mission shows just how complicated asteroid deflection actually is in practice. We’re making progress, but there’s clearly still a lot we need to learn about how these impacts work, if we want to use this method for planetary defense.
If you’re interested in finding out more about DART, check out this Astrum supercut we made about the mission: https://youtu.be/21YXb0bnY4E
Link to article: cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/massive-boulders-eje…
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