{"id":769532,"date":"2023-10-16T15:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=769532"},"modified":"2023-10-16T15:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:02:45","slug":"double-asteroid-redirection-test-post-impact-image-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=769532","title":{"rendered":"Double Asteroid Redirection Test Post-Impact Image Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"padding-top-5 padding-bottom-3 width-full maxw-full hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-article-intro\">\n<div class=\"width-full maxw-full article-header\">\n<div class=\"margin-bottom-2 width-full maxw-full\">\n<p class=\"label carbon-60 margin-0 margin-bottom-3 padding-0\">1 min read<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"display-48 margin-bottom-2\">Double Asteroid Redirection Test Post-Impact Image Gallery<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After 10 months flying in space, NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) \u2013 the world\u2019s first planetary defense technology demonstration \u2013 successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, September 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT. as the world\u2019s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.<\/p>\n<p>Over the coming weeks, ground based observatories around the world will characterize the ejecta produced by DART\u2019s impact and precisely measure Dimorphos\u2019 orbital change to determine how effectively DART deflected the asteroid. Below you will find a gallery that will continue to be updated as new images are taken of the Didymos asteroid system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>DART\u2019s target asteroid is not a threat to Earth<\/strong>\u00a0but is the perfect testing ground to see if this method of asteroid deflection \u2013 known as the kinetic impactor technique \u2013 would be a viable way to protect our planet if an asteroid on a collision course with Earth were discovered in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pdco-dart-2-2-new-liciacube-luke-flyby-anim-big-1sec.gif\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"DART's LICIACube\" loading=\"eager\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" \/><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">This movie uses images from the LUKE camera on ASI\u2019s LICIACube, captured just after the impact of NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirect Test, or DART, spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022. The video begins with LICIACube around 500 miles away from the asteroid, passes by, and then continues to around 200 miles away. The video clearly shows the ejection of material streaming off of Dimorphos due to the impact.<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">ASI\/NASA<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/dart\/double-asteroid-redirection-test-post-impact-image-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Double Asteroid Redirection Test Post-Impact Image Gallery<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Earth News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 min read Double Asteroid Redirection Test Post-Impact Image Gallery After 10 months flying in space, NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) \u2013 the world\u2019s first planetary defense technology demonstration&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}