NASA DART Mission to crash into an asteroid on purpose; WATCH it live- Know how
NASA will be conducting the world's 1st planetary defence test on September 26 with its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission. NASA with its DART Mission will crash a spacecraft into a non-hazardous asteroid to test the same. If you want to watch the historic collision then you can know that NASA will be broadcasting it live. But how will we know that the mission worked or not? To get the answer of the same, NASA's researchers and scientists visited Lowell Observatory, one of many observatories globally that will monitor the impact, to know about the same.
Informing about the same NASA tweeted, "Our #DARTMission will crash into a non-hazardous asteroid on purpose on Sept. 26 as the world's 1st planetary defense test. But how will we know it worked? To find out, we visited @LowellObs, one of many observatories globally that will monitor the impact. http://nasa.gov/dart."
Our #DARTMission will crash into a non-hazardous asteroid on purpose on Sept. 26 as the world's 1st planetary defense test. But how will we know it worked? To find out, we visited @LowellObs, one of many observatories globally that will monitor the impact. https://t.co/TJn4hq8QKW pic.twitter.com/vAJlUUU3Ax
It can be known that the mission, if successful, will provide knowledge about what to do if an asteroid is actually heading for Earth and will crash into it, destroying much of humanity. According to the information provided by NASA, this will be the world's first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, which will impact its target asteroid—which poses no threat to Earth—at 7:14 p.m. EDT on Monday, September 26.
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