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An illustration showing Dart spacecraft headed to crash on asteroid Dimorphos
Twitter/@NASASCaNThe DART mission launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in November 2021
Twitter: NASADart's navigation system first had to distinguish the smaller rock (Dimorphos) from the larger one (Didymos)
NASA/Johns Hopkins APLAsteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact. DART’s on board DRACO imager captured this image from a distance of 42 miles (68 kilometers). This image was the last to contain all of Dimorphos in the field of view. Dimorphos is roughly 525 feet (160 meters) in length. Dimorphos’ north is toward the top of the image.
NASA/Johns Hopkins APLThe LICIACube spacecraft, which photographed the DART mission’s collision with the asteroid Dimorphos, captured the planet Earth with its camera on September 21
NASA/Johns Hopkins APLThe final image from DART, taken at a distance of 12 km and 2 seconds before impact. The image shows part of the asteroid Dimorphos about 31 metre across
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