NASA DART Mission, Testing Asteroid Defense

Planetary ScienceAsteroid Defense
Written By Greg Schicker-Taubman

NASA image of Kinetick Impactor

DART is a planetary defense-driven test of technologies for preventing an impact of Earth by a hazardous asteroid. DART will be the first demonstration of the kinetic impactor technique to change the motion of an asteroid in space. Read about it on NASA

Greg Schicker-Taubman
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