'NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet.'
"NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet."its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft into an asteroid's moonlet known as Dimorphos at 14,000 mph.
Now, NASA is declaring the demonstration triumphant, saying it successfully changed the space rock's trajectory in an historic demonstration that humanity could indeed save itself from a catastrophic asteroid collision.said during a Tuesday briefing"This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us," he added. "NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet.
"We should not be too eager to say that one test on one asteroid tells us exactly how every other asteroid would behave in a similar situation," said Tom Statler, DART program scientist at NASA, during the briefing. "But what we can do is use this test as an anchor point for our physics calculations in our simulations that tell us how different kinds of impacts in different situations should behave," he added.
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