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About a year after its launch, the vehicle crashed "empty" NASA, following a frontal collision with an asteroid that was heading towards a planet Land.
The $ 325 million mission was to disperse one orbit asteroidIt’s a test for the day a killer boulder heads towards us.
The asteroid hit by a NASA spacecraft is now being researched NASA With thousands of miles of debris from the impact, astronomers spotted the scene millions of miles away using a telescope. Chile.
Their precise observation was released two days after a planetary defense test last month at the National Science Foundation’s laboratory in. Arizona.
The images showed an extended comet-like tail more than 10,000 km long, and it was made up of dust and other materials emitted by the collision.
This plume is moving away from the harmless asteroid, in large measure, due to the pressure exerted on it by solar radiation, said Matthew Knight of the US Naval Research Laboratory, who carried out the observation with Teddy Caretta of the Lowell Observatory. using the Telescope for Southern Astrophysics Research.
Scientists expect the tail to become longer and more sparse, and at some point it becomes too faint to be detected.
According to NASA, it has not formed and will not form an asteroid "Abode" The accompanying rocks threaten the earth.
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About a year after its launch, NASA’s “empty” spacecraft crashed, following a head-on collision with an asteroid on its way to a planet. Land.
The $ 325 million mission was to disperse one orbit asteroidIt’s a test for the day a killer boulder heads towards us.
The asteroid hit by a NASA spacecraft is now being researched NASA With thousands of miles of debris from the impact, astronomers spotted the scene millions of miles away using a telescope. Chile.
Their precise observation was released two days after a planetary defense test last month at the National Science Foundation’s laboratory in. Arizona.
The images showed an extended comet-like tail more than 10,000 km long, and it was made up of dust and other materials emitted by the collision.
This plume is moving away from the harmless asteroid, in large measure, due to the pressure exerted on it by solar radiation, said Matthew Knight of the US Naval Research Laboratory, who carried out the observation with Teddy Caretta of the Lowell Observatory. using the Telescope for Southern Astrophysics Research.
Scientists expect the tail to become longer and more sparse, and at some point it becomes too faint to be detected.
According to NASA, the asteroid “Demorphos” and its accompanying rocks do not and will not pose a threat to Earth.
