In a historic mission to protect Earth from asteroid impacts, an experimental spacecraft sent from Earth by NASA collided with the asteroid Diamorphs and destroyed it.
The purpose of this mission was to find out how difficult it would be to prevent a large space rock from hitting the Earth. Is. The entire mission has also been captured by the camera on the spacecraft.
According to media reports, NASA says that the targeted space rock is not on a collision course or orbit with Earth, nor will the experiment send the rock toward Earth by accident or error.
The experiment was observed by other space observers, including the James Webb Telescope, the largest telescope in space. According to scientists, the spacecraft in this experiment hit the asteroid’s center just 17 meters.
Experts believe that after this experiment, this asteroid should start moving towards the orbit of its nearby asteroid Didymos by a few minutes every day.
Dr. Nancy Chabot of Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory says that with this experiment, you can nudge an asteroid years in advance to slightly remove it from its orbit to avoid collisions with Earth in the future. .
