This is the first ever test of the Earth's planetary defence system
NASA's asteroid smashing spacecraft completed its spectacular doomed attack on a distant asteroid last night, and we already have three awe-inspiring videos of the event.
Then the recording cuts out. Adams said that DART had hit the 525-feet-wide Dimorphos just 56 feet from its exact center — an astronomical"bullseye." At mission control at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, cheers erupted from the mission scientists. These won't be the only telescopes put to use to study the impact. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope, and the agency's Lucy spacecraft will also train their lenses on the asteroid to study the impact's aftermath. Their observations will help scientists understand how much force is needed to successfully divert an asteroid from our planet.
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