NASA has successfully smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid seven million miles from Earth. The last image from the "vending machine-sized" collider showed the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos seconds before impact.





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Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defence test

The galactic slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles (9.6 million kilometers) away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the space rock at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph). Scientists expected the impact to carve out a crater, hurl streams of rocks and dirt into space and, most importantly, alter the asteroid's orbit.

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Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defense test

The same technique could be used to deflect space rocks that threaten Earth.

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Dimorphos: Nasa flies spacecraft into asteroid in direct hit

The mission was devised to determine whether a spacecraft is capable of changing the trajectory of an asteroid through sheer kinetic force

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NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defence test

A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. The galactic grand slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 11.3 million kilometres away.

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A NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.

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NASA slams spacecraft into asteroid in unprecedented test

LAUREL, Maryland (AP) — NASA spacecraft slams into harmless asteroid to see if it's possible to nudge killer space rocks out of Earth's way.

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NASA spacecraft slams into harmless asteroid to see if it's possible to nudge killer space rocks out of Earth's way

NASA's DART mission will give a chance to NASA scientists to plan how to protect Earth from potential impacts.

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NASA's Asteroid-Smashing Spacecraft To Hit Target Today At A Speed Faster Than A Bullet

Hurtling through the solar system at hypersonic speed on Monday, NASA's DART spacecraft slammed itself into a distant asteroid in a test of the world's first planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth. The finale to the suicide spaceflight, humanity's first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body, played

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NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in test of planetary defense system


 A NASA spacecraft has smashed into an asteroid named Dimorphos as part of a mission to protect Earth from flying rocks which could endanger the planet in the future
 

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NASA smashes spaceship into asteroid as part of epic mission to save Earth

Armageddon was a movie - but millions of miles from Earth, a NASA experiment will try and protect the Earth in much the same way Bruce Willis did in 1998.

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NASA’s Dart mission will try to divert the Dimorphos asteroid

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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, is the world's first attempt to change an asteroid's motion by ramming a space probe into it. Neither Dimorphos nor Didymos poses a threat to Earth, but seeing how well DART's maneuver worked will reveal how easy it is to tamper with an asteroid. The DART spacecraft weighs only as much as a couple of vending machines.

NASA smashes spacecraft into asteroid seven million miles from Earth in 'planetary defence' trial

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