The first images from space of the historic moment of the collision of the DART spacecraft with the asteroid “Demorphos” 11 million km away from us
NASA has completed its first-ever "planetary defense" test, in which its DART spacecraft deliberately collided with an asteroid floating millions of miles from Earth in an attempt to alter its course.
The US space agency said it had achieved a direct hit, but is still waiting for data from the experiment, as the space mission hit the object 11 million kilometers from Earth, at speeds of up to 14,000 miles per hour.
In the process of carrying out its mission, a small, microwave-sized spacecraft belonging to the Italian Space Agency, called the Light Italian CubeSat Asteroid Imaging, or LiciaCube for short, captured this historic moment in its chaotic glory.
More than 24 hours after the historic DART mission, the Italian Space Agency began sharing some images of the asteroid impact, first at a press conference, then on social media.
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