NASA’s DART mission ejected boulders from asteroid Dimorphos, offering new insight into asteroid collision outcomes | – The Times of India
NASA’s ambitious Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was designed to prove that humanity could redirect a potentially hazardous asteroid using sheer kinetic force. Launched toward the binary asteroid system of Didymos and its smaller moonlet Dimorphos, DART intentionally collided with Dimorphos on September 26, 2022. The goal is to shift its orbit as a…