Tag Archive for 'DART'

The asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by NASA’s DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact. DART’s on board DRACO imager captured this image from a distance of 68 km (42 miles). This image was the last to contain all of Dimorphos in the field of view. Image credit: NASA / Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Asteroid Moonlet Dimorphos May Have Been Reshaped Following Impact from NASA’s DART Mission

Feb 28, 2024 by News Staff

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully impacted Dimorphos, the natural satellite of the binary near-Earth...

This Hubble image of Dimorphos was taken on December 19, 2022, nearly four months after the asteroid was impacted by NASA’s DART mission. Dimorphos has a blue dust tail extending diagonally to the upper right. A cluster of blue dots surrounds the asteroid. These are boulders that were knocked off the asteroid. Image credit: NASA / ESA / D. Jewitt, UCLA.

Hubble Spots Swarm of Boulders around Asteroid Dimorphos

Jul 24, 2023 by News Staff

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slammed into the 160-m-wide asteroid moonlet Dimorphos — which...

This artist’s illustration shows the ejection of a cloud of debris after NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos. Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser.

VLT Observes Aftermath of Collision between DART and Dimorphos

Mar 21, 2023 by News Staff

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos in a controlled test of our asteroid deflection capabilities. The...

This Hubble image captures the breakup of Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by DART on September 26, 2022. Image credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Jian-Yang Li, PSI / Joseph DePasquale, STScI.

DART Offers Insight into How Deflection Missions Can Protect Earth from Hazardous Asteroids

Mar 2, 2023 by News Staff

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slammed into the 160-m-wide asteroid moonlet Dimorphos — which...

At the top right of the image, there are arrows indicating the direction of impact by NASA’s DART spacecraft. The direction of impact arrow points in the 10 o’clock direction. The ‘to Sun’ arrow points in the 8 o’clock direction. At the bottom right are compass arrows indicating the orientation of the image on the sky. The north arrow points in the directly straight up. The east arrow points to the left in the 9 o’clock direction. Image credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Jian-Yang Li, PSI / Joseph DePasquale.

Asteroid Moonlet Dimorphos Develops Two Tails after DART Impact

Oct 23, 2022 by News Staff

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two tails of dust ejected from the 160-m-wide asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, which orbits a larger,...

This image from ASI’s LICIACube satellite shows the plumes of ejecta streaming from Dimorphos after DART made impact with it on September 26, 2022. Each rectangle represents a different level of contrast in order to better see fine structure in the plumes. By studying these streams of material, we will be able to learn more about the asteroid and the impact process. Image credit: ASI / NASA / Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

DART’s Impact Altered Orbit of Dimorphos, NASA Says

Oct 12, 2022 by News Staff

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slammed into Dimorphos, a moonlet of the asteroid Didymos. According...

This image from the 4.1-m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope shows the more than 10,000-km-long dust trail stretching from the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. Image credit: CTIO / NOIRLab / SOAR / NSF / AURA / T. Kareta, Lowell Observatory / M. Knight, U.S. Naval Academy / T.A. Rector, University of Alaska Anchorage & NSF’s NOIRLab / M. Zamani & D. de Martin, NSF’s NOIRLab.

Astronomers Spot Huge Trail of Debris from DART Collision with Dimorphos

Oct 4, 2022 by News Staff

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos for the first planetary defense test. Two days...

This Webb image shows observations of the Didymos-Dimorphos system several hours after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally impacted the moonlet. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Jian-Yang Li, PSI / Cristina Thomas, Northern Arizona University / Ian Wong, NASA-GSFC / Joseph DePasquale, STScI / Alyssa Pagan, STScI.

Webb and Hubble Simultaneously Observe DART Impact

Sep 29, 2022 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope teamed up to collect data before and after NASA’s Double Asteroid...

NASA’s DART Spacecraft Successfully Impacts Asteroid Moonlet Dimorphos

Sep 27, 2022 by News Staff

After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into the 160-m-wide asteroid moonlet Dimorphos —...

Didymos as seen on the night of September 25/26, 2022 with ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Image credit: ESO / Bagnulo et al.

VLT Observes Asteroid Didymos before DART Impact

Sep 26, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is set to crash into Dimorphos, a moon of the asteroid Didymos, on September 26, 2022, at 7:14...

This image of the light from asteroid Didymos and its orbiting moonlet Dimorphos is a composite of 243 images taken by the DRACO camera on board NASA’s DART spacecraft on July 27, 2022. Image credit: NASA / JPL / DART Navigation Team.

NASA’s DART Spacecraft Gets First Look at Binary Asteroid Didymos

Sep 7, 2022 by News Staff

The Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO) aboard NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has captured...

On May 27, 2022, DART’s high-resolution camera DRACO captured this image of Vega, a young massive star located 25 light-years away in the constellation of Lyra. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

NASA’s DART Spacecraft Focuses on Vega

Jun 23, 2022 by News Staff

Since its launch on November 24, 2021, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has journeyed toward its September 26, 2022 encounter...

On December 10, 2021, DART’s DRACO camera captured and returned this image of Messier 38. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

NASA’s DART Spacecraft Captures Its First Images

Dec 23, 2021 by News Staff

Just two weeks after launch, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has returned its first images from space. On December 10, 2021,...

NASA Successfully Launches DART Mission to Test Asteroid Deflection

Nov 25, 2021 by News Staff

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission launched November 24, 2021 at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex...

ESA’s AIM spacecraft watches DART impact Didymoon. Image credit: ESA / Science Office.

AIDA: NASA and ESA Announce Double Mission to Asteroid Didymos

Oct 5, 2015 by News Staff

The Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission, a joint ESA-NASA cooperative project, will be the first space experiment to investigate...