task DART A “planetary defense” test against asteroids was deliberately crashed.
Impact of a study NASA Collided with an asteroid last year for a safety test TierraAccording to space telescope images, a “rock cloud” was sent into space Hubble Published this Thursday.
Work study DART On September 26, 2022, a deliberate collision with an asteroid occurred DemorphosesIt was about 11 million kilometers from Earth at the time of impact.
This practice allowed NASA Train yourself for an assumption Asteroid One day he threatened to beat Tierra.
Impact of DART diverted the path Demorphoses. Pictures Hubble The collision showed that cosmos between 1 and 7 meters in diameter were released in all 37 rocks.
Hubble released the full image.Source: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA)
According to a report, the rocks are slowly moving away from the asteroid at a speed of about 1 km.
At this pace, the mission European Space AgencyAsteroid probe Hera in 2026 — a cloud of rocks could be observed.
The film “tells for the first time what happens when you hit an asteroid and what comes out of it.”
Rock scattering indicates that DART It created a crater about 50 meters in diameter on the asteroid.
Scientists will continue to study the trajectory of the rocks to understand “in which directions they were ejected.”
AFP
