Nava spațială DART a NASA a reușit să devieze cu succes un asteroid din calea sa, într-un test de apărare a Pământului

September 27, 2022, United States: VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**..NASA scientists have been practicing their space snooker skills by shooting an asteroid out of orbit...To strike the asteroid Diomorphos, the NASA team took aim in November last year and launched a spacecraft towards the space rock. .After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – or the world’s longest snooker shot - successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday (26September2022). It was the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space and provides hope that should a deadly asteroid be heading towards Earth, we can deflect it away from our planet..Mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, announced the successful impact at 7:14 p.m. EDT. .“At its core, DART represents an unprecedented success for planetary defense, but it is also a mission of unity with a real benefit for all humanity,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “As NASA studies the cosmos and our home planet, we’re also working to protect that home, and this international collaboration turned science fiction into science fact, demonstrating one way to protect Earth.”.DART targeted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, a small body just 530 feet (160 meters) in diameter. It orbits a larger, 2,560-foot (780-meter) asteroid called Didymos. Neither asteroid poses a threat to Earth..The mission’s one-way trip confirmed NASA can successfully navigate a spacecraft to intentionally collide with an asteroid to deflect it, a technique known as kinetic impact..The investigation team will now observe Dimorphos using ground-based telescopes to confirm that DART’s impact altered the asteroid’s orbit around Didymos. Researchers expect the impact to shorten Dimorphos’ orbit (Cred