New results from NASA's DART planetary defence mission confirm we could deflect deadly asteroids
- Written by: Eleanor K. Sansom, Research Associate, Curtin University
CTIO / NOIRLab / SOAR / NSF / AURA/ T. Kareta (Lowell Observatory), M. Knight (US Naval Academy)What would we do if we spotted a hazardous asteroid on a collision course with Earth? Could we deflect it safely to prevent the impact?
Last year, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission tried to find out whether a “kinetic...