OPEN LETTER/ Come to the dialogue and listen to me speak, otherwise I will cut off your scholarships, you will rot in prison. Please!

 Kliko këtu për të tjera
Voxpress:

Earth defense experiment: NASA successfully tests an asteroid strike

2022-09-27 17:50:55Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Earth defense experiment: NASA successfully tests an asteroid strike
NASA successfully tests an asteroid impact

NASA's Dart probe hit Dimorphos, a small asteroid 160 meters in diameter, to deflect its trajectory, in the first planetary defense experiment designed to protect Earth from future threatening asteroids.

As the probe approached its target, the camera sent increasingly detailed images of the celestial body's surface to Earth, 13 million kilometers from Earth. With each image, the excitement grew in NASA's Control Center, to a standing ovation that greeted him.

"We are entering a new era of humanity, an era in which we potentially have the ability to protect ourselves from something like a dangerous asteroid impact," said Lori Glaze, director of NASA's Planetary Sciences Division. "What an amazing thing. We've never had this ability before.”

At the time of impact, Didymos and Dimorphos were relatively close to Earth, within 11 million kilometers. The team estimates that the spacecraft hit the asteroid at a point about 17 meters from the center of the space rock.

The spacecraft's purpose is to influence the motion of an asteroid in space, but DART team members say it will take about two months for scientists to determine whether the asteroid's orbit has changed.

The DART mission, or Dual Asteroid Redirect Test, began 10 months ago. Dimorphos is a small asteroid orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. The asteroid system poses no threat to Earth, NASA officials have said, making it a perfect target to test a kinetic impact — which could be necessary if an asteroid is ever on track to strike. The earth.

The event was the agency's first full-scale demonstration of diversion technology that can protect the planet.

Galeria fotografike (
)


Në përputhje me standarded JTI

Video

SHIKO KANALIN NE YOUTUBE
×