NASA’s DART spacecraft slams into asteroid to knock it off its path
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NASA's DART spacecraft has successfully collided with an asteroid as part of a test to prepare the Earth for defensive measures against possible threats in the future.
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The impact occurred 7 million miles away, with the DART spacecraft plowing into the rock at 14,000 mph. 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.
Telescopes around the world and in space aimed at the same point in the sky to capture the spectacle.
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