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The DART mission deployed a kinetic impactor to smack the small moon Dimorphos of the asteroid Didymos on the evening of September 26. This was an on-orbit demonstration of asteroid deflection, a key test of NASA’s kinetic impactor technology, designed to impact an asteroid to adjust its speed and path. This particular asteroid moon is NOT a threat to Earth, but is technology being explored to use for when we DO find a potentially hazardous asteroid.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured these extraordinary views of the asteroid moon soon after the successful impact.
Credit: NASA Langley Research Center
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