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A back view animation of NASA’s first planetary defense test mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which collided with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. Also in the video is the larger parent asteroid Didymos, which Dimorphos orbits. This impact event marked humanity’s first time deliberately changing the motion of an object in space and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Jon Emmerich
Interesting Astronomy Books:
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
by Avi Loeb: https://www.amazon.com/Extraterrestrial-First-Intelligent-Beyond-Earth-ebook/dp/B081TTY4NX?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=doallshoppingcom&linkCode=ur2&linkId=6f921a4e0332afdc10ef56e47a7fd322&camp=1789&creative=9325
Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Seth Shostak: https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Alien-Hunter-Extraterrestrial-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B001UMCA32?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=doallshoppingcom&linkCode=ur2&linkId=00c738c1bd3390f6864ef88d6a7abd9c&camp=1789&creative=9325
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