DART Impact

NASA's plan to target and hit an Asteroid in space in an attempt to move it was 100% successful... Watch as it approaches an asteroid and a planetary type of asteroid, which is the target... I am following this up with the results from NASA, so look for it in about 30 minutes after this post...

Here is the accompanying text by JHU Applied PHysics Laboratory:

"The final five-and-a-half minutes of images leading up to the DART spacecraft’s intentional collision with asteroid Dimorphos. The DART spacecraft streamed these images from its DRACO camera back to Earth in real time as it approached the asteroid.

This replay movie is 10 times faster than reality, except for the last six images, which are shown at the same rate that the spacecraft returned them. Both Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos are visible at the start of the movie. At the end, Dimorphos fills the field of view. The final image in the movie shows a patch of Dimorphos that is 51 feet 16 meters) across.

DART’s impact occurred during transmission of the final image to Earth, resulting in a partial picture at the end of this movie. Didymos is roughly 2,500 feet (780 meters) in diameter; Dimorphos is about 525 feet (160 meters) in length. (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL)"
JHU Applied PHysics Laboratory:

Enjoy,
Kerry

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