First images released of NASA’s successful DART asteroid impact

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First images released of NASA’s successful DART asteroid impact

By Patrick Reilly
September 28, 2022

Stunning images showing NASA’s DART spacecraft’s intentional collision with an asteroid were released Tuesday.

The Italian Space Agency shared the first images snapped by the tiny camera trailing the vending-machine-sized spacecraft, the LICIACube — or  Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids.

The images were transmitted seven million miles back to earth about three hours following NASA’s successful impact on the asteroid Monday night during a test run to prepare for when a massive space rock actually threatens Earth, according to Space.com.

The images from Agenzia Spaziale Italiana show the asteroid before and after impact, with clouds of debris surrounding the 530-foot space rock, called Dimorphos. One image shows a brilliant flash of light as the spacecraft hit.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/09/28/nasas-dart-asteroid-collision-shown-in-newly-released-photos/

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