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Asteroid debris from NASA's successful DART mission may strike Mars
DART mission successfully deflected an asteroid's path by deliberately colliding with it, but Mars may suffer unintended ...
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European Space Agency set to launch probes at asteroid to test planetary defense system
The Hera mission will study the Dimorphos asteroid that was pushed off course by NASA’s DART spacecraft in 2022 ...
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NASA Mission Accidentally Sends Space Rocks Hurtling Towards Mars
By smashing a spacecraft into the smaller asteroid, Dimorphos, and measuring the changes to its orbit, NASA learned that we ...
NASA says 280-foot asteroid set to approach Earth! Know how close it will get
And now, US space agency NASA says that one asteroid that is as big as 280 feet is all set to get very close to Earth ...
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NASA's 'Armageddon' mission backfires! DART asteroid deflection test created a cloud of giant boulders that are set to crash into Mars
During the DART mission, NASA used an uncrewed spacecraft to slam into Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour to see if it was possible to push a space rock off its orbit. READ MORE: NASA's DART ...
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Powerful Spacecraft Impact Turned Squashed Ball-Shaped Asteroid Into an Oblong Watermelon
DART was technically a spacecraft with a mass of 1,340 pounds (610 kg). It was propelled by a solar-powered electric propulsion system comprising a gridded ion engine (NASA's Evolutionary Xenon ...
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NASA smashed an asteroid with a rocket. The debris could hit Mars.
A test to protect Earth from asteroids unleashed a swarm of boulders—and a new study suggests that there may be some unintended consequences. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ...
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Nasa’s DART spacecraft has crashed into an asteroid: how might this protect Earth from potential destruction?
Nasa launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft in November 2021. The purpose of the mission was to collide with an asteroid about the size of a football stadium at 22,530 ...
NASA mission to deflect asteroid 'may have accidentally started game of space billiards'
The DART spacecraft was deliberately crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos to successfully demonstrate the ability to change the exact course of an asteroid in space ...
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NASA's DART Mission Accidentally Redirected Space Rocks at Mars
In 2022, the DART spacecraft successfully plunged into a space rock dubbed Dimorphos. The test showed that it is possible to redirect an asteroid, potentially saving Earth from a future cataclysm ...