New Delhi: The American space agency NASA has done another big feat. NASA successfully carried out its Dart mission as part of the exercise to save the Earth from the threat of asteroids. According to the news agency AP, on Monday, NASA’s spacecraft collided with the asteroid at a speed of 22500 km per hour in space. Let us tell you that through this test, NASA wanted to see whether the direction of an asteroid coming towards the Earth could be changed or not.
It was told that this test took place on September 27 at 5.45 am, in which a NASA spacecraft named Dart collided with the Dimorphos asteroid at a speed of 14,000 mph, or 22,500 km per hour, which was said to be successful. With this test, scientists hope to change the orbit of the asteroid and change its direction.
Telescopes around the world and in space are aimed at the same point in the sky to capture the spectacle. Though the impact was immediately obvious — Dart’s radio signal abruptly ceased — it will take as long as a couple of months to determine how much the asteroid’s path was changed.
The $325 million mission was the first attempt to shift the position of an asteroid or any other natural object in space.
NASA’s Mission Control’s Elena Adams announced the success of this test. Although NASA’s spacecraft collided with the asteroid, it will take some time to get data about the direction in which it has turned and how much it has changed, because Dart’s radio signal suddenly stopped after the collision.
Mission Control’s Elena Adams said that as far as we can tell you, our first planetary defense test, ie the test to save Earth from asteroids, has been successful. I think now people should sleep peacefully. As soon as the announcement of the collision of the spacecraft with the Dimorphos asteroid, the equivalent of the football stadium, the room erupted with applause and everyone started celebrating. Let us tell you that the purpose of the Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) spacecraft to hit the asteroid was to protect it from the dangers of the asteroid coming in its path.
