Rhonda reminded me of the impending demonstration mission.
I searched around a bit to find a live feed. Successfully tuned in about 15 minutes before the planned impact. Pretty neat.
The image shows the rocky moonlet asteroid Dimorphos seconds before impact with a picture-in-picture of mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission is the first planetary defense test to gauge the effectiveness of crashing a rapidly moving object into a potential Earth-bound asteroid so to divert it.
Intriguing aspect: waiting for the loss of signal (LOS) to know of mission success!
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Ha ha. As I was searching Google for DART info, I noted their animated collision effect.
Funny.
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Steve told me about this event
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