The purpose of the mission was to change Dimorph’s orbit around a larger asteroid called Didimos to test a potential way to correct the asteroid’s orbit.
The Italian space agency has published the first images of the collision of the NASA DART spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorph, which is located at a distance of about 11 million kilometers from Earth. Space.com reported it.
The images show the state of asteroids Didymus and Dimorph before and after the collision, as well as images of bright debris around Dimorph.
Elisabetta Dotto, head of the scientific team at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), said the images are critical in helping scientists understand the structure and composition of the Dimorph space object.
At the same time, he added that in the coming days, astronomers will publish the remaining images.
NASA
Recall that the American DART probe collided with the asteroid Dimorphos as part of an experiment to change the flight path of a space object.
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