“We succeeded in deflecting an asteroid, moving it from its orbit.” These are the words of Tony Farnham, author of the just-released analysis of the DART mission. They ring with a victory in planetary ...
Science fiction became science fact in 2022 when NASA’s DART mission took the first steps towards creating a planetary defence system that could someday protect Earth from a catastrophic asteroid ...
How does a planetary defense mission intended to push an asteroid off course manage to release a torrent of boulders with the same momentum as the spacecraft? NASA’s groundbreaking experiment, the ...
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