NASA used an orbital spacecraft to carry out a kinetic energy impact on a near-Earth asteroid on the 26th. According to the Associated Press, on the 29th local time, NASA released new photos taken by Hubble and Weber Space Telescopes, which attracted attention.

NASA announced three different views of the spacecraft hitting the asteroid

NASA (NASA) used an orbiting spacecraft to carry out a kinetic energy impact on a near-Earth asteroid on the 26th. According to Associated Press , on the 29th local time, NASA released new photos taken by Hubble and Weber Space Telescope , which attracted attention.

On September 26, local time, NASA's "Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)" spacecraft successfully hit a near-Earth asteroid called Dimorphos, trying to change the orbit of the asteroid through kinetic energy impact. This is the first time in the world that has been tested to defend the Earth from the threat of asteroid impact.

space telescope on all continents around the world is observing this process. On the 29th, new images released by NASA showed that a "giant pit" appeared after the impact of the Dimofus asteroid, which caused the rock flow to splatter into space, showing bright radiant light.

NASA said that according to the images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the asteroid's brightness tripled after being hit. The Hubble and Webb telescopes will continue to conduct observations in the coming weeks, and scientists won't know the exact changes until November.

The experimental subject selected by NASA this time is a "dual asteroid" system. The impacted asteroid has a diameter of 160 meters. It rotates around another asteroid with a diameter of 780 meters. The two asteroids are about 1 kilometer apart. Editor-in-chief of

column: Qin Hong Text editor: Song Hui Title image source: Visual China Picture editor: Cao Liyuan

Source: Author: Overseas Network