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NASA has prepared a special spacecraft
A spacecraft will intentionally collide with an asteroid
NASA shared information on its Twitter handle
New York. The US space agency NASA has created a spacecraft that will intentionally collide with a small asteroid named Dimorphos. However, this asteroid does not pose any threat to Earth. According to a report in Sky News, this mission will show that these dangerous-looking rocks can be deliberately crashed and thrown out of their way.
26, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will collide with an asteroid not far from Earth. FoxWeather.com says the project aims to protect Earth from the dangers of oncoming asteroids.
space agency tweeted
Sharing a post on Twitter on Wednesday, the space agency said, ‘Our Dart mission will turn into an asteroid in a beautiful way. However, this does not pose any threat to the earth. The spacecraft’s imager captured a picture of Jupiter. The four largest moons are visible in it.
Giving information about its mission, NASA has shared important information on its official Twitter handle.
DRACO, the Asteroid Camera for Reconnaissance and Optical Navigation for Didymos on NASA’s DART mission, has taken hundreds of images of the stars as it approaches its much-anticipated September 26 collision with the binary asteroid Didymos, according to a release from the space agency. is progressing. , Image provided by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) team, which is in charge of the project for NASA.
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First Published: 22 September 2022, 23:52 IST