NASA will interact with the media on Tuesday, scientists will be involved in uncovering the secrets of the DART mission
The US space agency NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) means the whole world is eager to know the result of the collision of a spacecraft on an asteroid for the first time. How much damage the asteroid would have caused in this collision, how much Malwa would have flown in the sky, how the asteroid’s orbit would have changed and what would be its benefits in the future. Everyone wants to know the information etc. NASA had informed the world about the success of this test on 26 September 2022 and is going to tell further details on 11 October. In which big officials, scientists and media associated with the DART mission will participate. However, in the meantime, scientists estimate from the pictures of this collision from Earth’s telescopes that the debris and dust from the asteroid would have spread thousands of kilometers away in this collision.
Shocking secrets will be revealed by the collision of asteroid Dimorphos
Common people will be very curious to know about the debris left by this collision and why not, because that moment of collision will be very thrilling. The dust that came out of which would not have spread in the sky how far and not only that, but for how many days it would have been flying and it is also possible that it is still flying till today. Apart from this, how much more damage would have been done to it due to the fall of the unevenly dispersed debris back into this body. Apart from this, a big disclosure will also be that what kind of change will have happened and what kind of change will come in future.
However, this dreadful suspense remains to this day and possibly on Tuesday, NASA will be able to reveal it to some extent.
If such a body collided on the earth, then how much effect it would have, it can be confirmed accurately. As scientists believe that if a large body from space collides with the earth, then it will have an effect thousands of times more than the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. That is why many big space agencies of the world, including NASA, keep an eye on them. There is no doubt that so far dozens of bodies have collided on the earth and their marks are still present and we can see those marks, but we cannot guess the magnitude of the collision. It is also said that the destruction of giant creatures like dinosaurs from the earth has also happened due to these and a recent research has also shown that the collision took place on the sea and the terrible tsunami changed the picture of the earth’s atmosphere. Kept it However, these are things of the past and in the present we can do nothing but guess about these accidents. But it is certain that after the collision of DART on 26 September, a lot will become clear in front of us.
The eyes of many telescopes of the world on the collision
Here many telescopes of the world are deployed to take stock of the collision of Dart and after this collision are gathering information from moment to moment. In which the 4.1-meter Southern Astrophysics Research (SOAR) telescope in Chile took pictures of huge piles of dust and debris blown off the surface of the asteroid. Traces of dust are visible in the new pictures. Similar results from other telescopes are yet to come. here
Lowell Observatory scientist Teddy Caretta said that it is amazing that we are able to take clear pictures of the structure and its boundaries in the days after the collision.
NASA will hold a press conference on October 11, will give detailed information
NASA is going to hold a media briefing on October 11. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and its intentional collision with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, will be discussed. In this discussion, there will be all the scientists associated with DART and there will be media. Also present at the event were NASA Official Administrator Bill Nelson, Italian Space Agency President Giorgio Sacoccia, DART Update Panel Director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, Lori Glaze, Tom Statler, DART Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters
In addition to Nancy Chabot, there will be media at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.
The collision was done on 26 September
On 26 September, DART collided with a space asteroid as part of the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration. The mission involved two asteroids, one targeting Dimorphos and the other Didymos. The special thing is that Dimorphos is the moon of Didymos, which orbits like our moon. Didymos has a diameter of about 2,500 feet (780 m); Dimorphos is about 525 feet (160 m) in length. In this mission, the Dart spacecraft had to travel 10 months in space to reach Deformos and NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission became the world’s first and historic planetary defense.
In this mission a 570 kg K box-shaped spacecraft was built. Who had to travel for ten months. This journey was of 56000 miles i.e. 90,000 kms. The collision took place at a speed of 22,530 kilometers per hour. From this you can imagine how fierce this collision must have been.
Photo and source: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
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