LOS ANGELES, August 24, 2022 (Xinhua) – The agency’s scheduled double asteroid redirection examination, the world’s initial mission to take a look at engineering to safeguard Earth from likely asteroid or comet potential risks, will collide with an asteroid focus on on September 26, in accordance to NASA.
NASA explained on Tuesday that the effects, scheduled for 7:14 PM EDT on Sept. 26, poses no danger to Earth.
NASA has indicated that this test will present that any spacecraft can quickly vacation to a concentrate on asteroid and intentionally collide with it to change the asteroid’s movement in a way that can be measured making use of ground-dependent telescopes.
NASA claimed the double asteroid redirect examination will present vital knowledge to aid better prepare for a perhaps dangerous asteroid on Earth.
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