NASAthe first planetary defense test mission Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) It’s getting ready for the end of this month. With this test, the spacecraft is deliberately preparing to crash into an asteroid. Finally, the spacecraft It will strike on September 26 gave the first image of the asteroid.
NASA will prefer ‘kinetic impact’ technique for deflection
One way to deal with an asteroid about to crash into Earth is to change its direction. US space agency NASA DART mission He plans to do exactly that. This project, which started in November last year, Didymos a near-Earth asteroid and its orbiting moon dimorphos will be used to deflect. For this too ‘kinetic impact’ technique is preferred.
The asteroid Dimorphos is one for Earth threatening does not create. But there’s something NASA wants to know. He also crashed into an asteroid by the spacecraft so that he could protect our planet from dangerous space rocks in the future. whether to change the flight path learn.
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Below is DART’s Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera (DRACO) Here is the image taken in July and released this week. The image is the target of the spacecraft. Dimorphos (in left circle) It shows Didymos, a double asteroid system containing According to DART a million miles away It can be said that it is.
The image is actually 243 separate captures contains. It also shows light from the asteroid Didymos and its orbiting moon Dimorphos. NASA said its team isn’t sure if DRACO will be able to detect the asteroid yet. He added that, however, after putting together countless images, they were able to refine the final rummy and pinpoint Didymos.
Elena Adams, DART mission systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, made a statement on the subject. “This first set of images is used as a test to prove our imaging techniques. The quality of the image is similar to what we can get from ground-based telescopes. But it’s important to show that DRACO is working properly and can see its target to make any necessary adjustments before using the images to guide the spacecraft.”
Scientists of the World From 460 feet (140 meters) calculated that he was most at risk from larger asteroids. There are many planets that astronomers have yet to discover. Therefore, a successful test, which will take place in just a few weeks, is very important for the safety of our planet.
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