The $325 million mission was to disperse an orbit asteroidIt’s a rehearsal for the day a killer boulder heads our way.
The asteroid hit by an NASA spacecraft is now being tracked down NASA With thousands of miles of debris from the impact, astronomers spotted the scene millions of miles away using a telescope in Chile.
Their precise observation was released two days after a planetary defense test last month at the National Science Foundation lab in . Arizona.
The images showed an extended comet-like tail more than 10,000 km long, and it consisted of dust and other materials emitted from the collision.
This plume is accelerating away from the harmless asteroid, to a large extent, due to pressure on it from solar radiation, said Matthew Knight of the US Naval Research Laboratory, who carried out the observation along with Teddy Caretta of the Lowell Observatory, using the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope. .
Scientists expect the tail to become longer and more scattered, and at some point become too weak to be detected.
According to NASA, it did not and will not form an asteroid "Dimorphos" The rocks accompanying it threaten the earth.
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About a year after its launch, the “empty” spacecraft of NASA crashed, as a result of a head-on collision with an asteroid that was heading towards a planet. Earth.
The $325 million mission was to disperse an orbit asteroidIt’s a rehearsal for the day a killer boulder heads our way.
The asteroid hit by an NASA spacecraft is now being tracked down NASA With thousands of miles of debris from the impact, astronomers spotted the scene millions of miles away using a telescope in Chile.
Their precise observation was released two days after a planetary defense test last month at the National Science Foundation lab in . Arizona.
The images showed an extended comet-like tail more than 10,000 km long, and it consisted of dust and other materials emitted from the collision.
This plume is accelerating away from the harmless asteroid, to a large extent, due to pressure on it from solar radiation, said Matthew Knight of the US Naval Research Laboratory, who carried out the observation along with Teddy Caretta of the Lowell Observatory, using the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope. .
Scientists expect the tail to become longer and more scattered, and at some point become too weak to be detected.
According to NASA, the asteroid “Demorphos” and its accompanying rocks have not and will not pose a threat to Earth.