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Corey S Powell
@coreyspowell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

3 years ago, NASA crashed the DART spacecraft into an asteroid at 22,000 kilometers per hour. The event changed the asteroid's orbit and tilt & sent it tumbling.

A nearby cubesat captured these remarkable images of the asteroid immediately after the impact. Scientists are still still studying the results.

https://aasnova.org/2025/11/03/shot-by-the-dart-and-were-to-blame-now-that-space-rock-wont-be-the-same/ #space #science #nature

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Animated sequence of images taken by LICIACube as it flew past Didymos and Dimorphos a few minutes after impact by the DART spacecraft. The image is centered on Didymos with the smaller Dimorphos visible for most of the flyby. Large plumes of ejected material are visible, radiating out from the impact site where a very deep crater likely formed.
Animated sequence of images taken by LICIACube as it flew past Didymos and Dimorphos a few minutes after impact by the DART spacecraft. The image is centered on Didymos with the smaller Dimorphos visible for most of the flyby. Large plumes of ejected material are visible, radiating out from the impact site where a very deep crater likely formed.
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Corey S Powell
@coreyspowell@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

I'm not sure exactly what I expected an asteroid impact would look like, but "giant psychedelic space spiderweb" definitely was not it.

All those science fiction movies, and none of them managed to capture the real strangeness of a collision with an asteroid.

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