The car-sized probe will visit Dimorphos, the asteroid whose path was diverted last year.
By the year 2019, there were about 19,000 near-Earth asteroids, with the potential of colliding with the planet, observed by NASA. An average of 30 new discoveries are added each week. While some of these asteroids have the potential to destroy minor cities, a lot of them can wipe out Earth entirely., was a spacecraft mission launched on September 26, 2022, and was made to deliberately slam into a pyramid-sized asteroid Dimorphos, successfully knocking it out of its orbit.
While Dimorphos did not pose any threat, the exercise was the first test of Earth's planetary defenses., five new studies concluded that the mission was a resounding success.The European Space Agency will launch a mission next year in October, called, which will return to Dimorphos to inspect the damage done by DART. The mission’s aim is to perform a close-up survey of the aftermath of the collision by DART.
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