CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world now has stunning new photos of this week's asteroid strike, the first planetary defense test of its kind.
NASA on Thursday released pictures of the dramatic event taken by the Hubble and Webb space telescopes.
Telescopes on all seven continents watched as NASA's Dart spacecraft slammed Monday into the harmless space rock, 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) from Earth, in hopes of altering its orbit.
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Back before trees existed, when Earth was inhabited solely by single-celled organisms, the largest asteroid to ever hit our planet touched down near what we now know as Johannesburg, South Africa, forming the Vredefort crater.
With an estimated crater size of between 250-280 kilometers (155-174 miles) upon first impact, the size of the asteroid was originally calculated to be around 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) in diameter.
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DART was designed as humanity's first experiment in kinetic impact mitigation, which is a lot of syllables to say the goal was to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if the collision could alter the space rock's orbit.
The effort to capture the instant of the impact, as well as earlier and follow-up imagery of the crash site, marks the first time Webb and Hubble have made observations of the same target at the same time.
The science of averting disasters.
As Florida prepares for Hurricane Ian, NASA is hoping to deflect another natural disaster — an asteroid.
The agency successfully crashed a spacecraft into a space rock some seven million miles away. And while this asteroid is no threat to Earth, what scientists learn from this cosmic collision could help us better prepare to avert a future strike.
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FARGO — NASA's successful asteroid-deflecting mission this week brought to mind an episode of the television series "Star Trek" in which the Enterprise crew manage to deflect an asteroid headed for a populated planet.
However, in standard 1968 television style, these characters are played by non-indigenous actors with heavy, reddish, artificial-looking makeup. They speak in a monotone, staccato voice pattern like most other television actors portraying indigenous Americans at the time.
NASA to Fire a Rocket at an Asteroid
Look, I know what happens next. Either we miss the damn thing entirely, or we nudge it into a direct trajectory toward Earth—it's presently going to miss us by a parsec or three—and then we all have to pay Bruce Willis to go and blow it up.
Nothing good comes from this, and that's not even getting into the possibility that Jerry Bruckheimer probably has designed this whole production. I mean, we're going to get to watch the satellite approach its target for almost an hour before it slams into it.
Hurricane Ian leaves path of destruction, NASA rams asteroid, consumers gaining confidence | Hot ...
Hurricane Ian dominated news cycles for much of the week. After forming and eventually leaving Cuba without power after slamming the island, the Category 4 storm became one of the strongest ever to hit the U.S.
By Tuesday morning, Ian had intensified into a Category 3. In the afternoon, concerns grew that the storm would continue to intensify. More than one million people in Cuba were left without electricity.
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Nasa releases images of 'planetary defense test' as spacecraft crashes into asteroid https://t.co/RotEsJicie guardian (from London) Thu Sep 29 17:11:59 +0000 2022
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