Dimorphos, the asteroid that was hit by NASA’s DART spacecraft on September 26, has expelled a large column of dust that resembles the tail of a comet, according to observations made with the South Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR). ) at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. In this new image, taken two days after … Read more
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has flown over Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and has sent back its first image during its closest approach, 352 kilometers from the surface of said satellite. Europa is one of the celestial bodies of the solar system with many possibilities of harboring life. A salty ocean up to 150 km deep is … Read more
NASA has performed the first planetary defense mission in history, by making its dart ship the size of a car and weighing 570 kilograms, crashes into Dimorphos an asteroid of almost half a ton and 160 meters in diameter, similar to the Colosseum in Rome. The DART impact with Dimorphos 11 million kilometers from Earth, … Read more
This Monday, September 26 at 6:14 pm (Peru time), a NASA spacecraft crashed into an asteroid. The DART mission has been the first planetary defense test in history and has tested the technology that we would use if, in the future, an asteroid threatens to fall to Earth and endanger humanity. The objective of the … Read more
This Monday, September 26, NASA’s DART spacecraft will deliberately collide with an asteroid in what will be the first test of planetary defense of history After the impact, scientists will check if this strategy is effective in deflecting, in the future, a celestial body that threatens to fall to Earth. DART, a 570 kg aircraft, … Read more
NASA has called off the scheduled launch of the unmanned Moon mission Artemis 1 on Tuesday, September 27, due to Tropical Storm Ian, which is expected to strengthen as it approaches Florida. “NASA is abandoning a launch opportunity … as it watches the forecast associated with Tropical Storm Ian,” the US space agency said on … Read more
A NASA spacecraft is just hours away from crashing into the asteroid Dimorphos. This is the DART mission which will test whether humanity can change the direction of a celestial body in space. In this note we tell you all the details about this historic project. DART is a NASA mission that will go down … Read more
A ship sent by NASA is going straight to hit an asteroid and thus divert its current trajectory. This maneuver, never attempted before, will be the first demonstration of how prepared we are to defend the Earth against this type of space threat. This is the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission and it is … Read more
NASA is about to make history with the DART mission, the first planetary defense attempt that will consist of intentionally crashing a 550kg spacecraft into a 160m diameter asteroid called Dimorphos. It will be a time to test the technology that will be used if humanity ever needs to fend off a giant space rock … Read more
Next week, a NASA spacecraft will collide with the asteroid Dimorphos. the so-called dart mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will be the first planetary defense attempt in history and will test the technology to avoid any space threat from Earth. Dimorphos which in Greek means ‘two forms’, is an asteroid 160 meters in diameter. It … Read more
