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First images of NASA probe colliding with asteroid released
Miscellaneous / / April 04, 2023
A bright flash in pitch darkness.
The Italian space agency has published its first images from the tiny Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) spacecraft, NASA's companion probe as part of the DART missions. It was this apparatus that filmed the collision with the asteroid Dimorph.
In the photo you can see a bright flash from the explosion, which also illuminated the asteroid Didim, whose satellite is Dimorph.
Scientists notedthat the space probe deviated from the estimated point of impact with the asteroid by only 17 meters, which is very not bad for an object that flew over 11 million kilometers and struck at a speed of 6.6 kilometers per give me a sec.
It's fantastic to see the successful death of a DART mission when it crashes into the tiny asteroid Dimorph. It's actually a bit surreal - I think this is only the second time I've seen astronomers in this delighted with the destruction of the spaceship - and in this case, this destruction speaks of a very well done work.
Jonty Horner
professor, astronomer and astrobiologist at the University of South Queensland, Australia
Now begins the observation period, in which many telescopes around the world will monitor the change in the trajectory of the Dimorph. If it really managed to be displaced by a blow, then this will mean that humanity will protect the Earth from the fall of large space objects.
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