Sep 27 2022
Technology that may Save Humanity
NASA’s DART completed its mission of redirecting an asteroid becoming the first time humanity has targeted and altered the orbit of a celestial object.
DART stands for ” Double Asteroid Redirection Test” and it was used to do just that. After 10 months of orbiting the Sun it smashed into Dimorphous, which is a small asteroid around seven million miles away from Earth.
Hitting Dimorphous with an object moving with the speed the DART was causes its orbit to change and could make the difference in a collision versus a near miss with Earth in the future.
This is important news because it gives the audience a feeling of safety. NASA is working to find ways to keep external threats to Earth from happening and this affects everyone and everything.
This technology will help to protect humanity for years to come alongside future preventative technologies that will be developed in the years to come as NASA and other scientists find ways to protect the Earth.
One response so far
Every news site is making the connections to Bruce Willis and Armageddon. That’s annoying. The fact we can do this is pretty amazing.