First modification:
The device, designed by NASA as a means to defend the earth from a possible future threat, modified the course of a meteorite, in a test crash carried out at a speed of 22,500 kilometers per hour, 9.6 million kilometers from Earth. Land.
The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was a 160-meter rock that did not represent a risk to the earth, and the idea was that the DART spacecraft would alter the orbit of the celestial body, as a test against a possible threat to the Earth.
Telescopes located in different parts of the planet have captured the impact, but it will be several days before it is possible to calculate how much the trajectory of Dimorphos was modified.
DART, which stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, was launched into space on November 24, 2021, at a cost of $325 million.
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