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Asteroid Didymos (top left) and its moonlet, Dimorphos, about 2.5 minutes before the impact of NASA's DART spacecraft. The image was taken by the on board DRACO imager from a distance of 570 miles. This image was the last to contain a complete view of both asteroids. Didymos is roughly 2,500 feet in diameter; Dimorphos is about 525 feet in length. Didymos' and Dimorphos' north is toward the top of the image. (Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL photograph)

In first-ever planetary defense test, NASA’s DART mission...

by Josh Handel, Justyna Suroweic and Michael Buckley • September 27, 2022 8:28 am

After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — the world’s first planetary defense technology…

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