The Double Asteroid Redirection Test was a NASA space mission to test a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects. It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact can deflect an as
Diagram of the DART spacecraft striking Dimorphos
DRACO camera
NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT)
LICIACube CubeSat, a companion satellite of the DART spacecraft
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Dimorphos is a natural satellite or moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, with which it forms a binary system. The moon was discovered on 20 November 2003 by Petr Pravec in collaboration with
A trail of dust streams from Dimorphos in this Hubble Space Telescope photo taken about three months after the collision. The asteroid is surrounded by blue dots, which are boulders ranging from 1 to 6.7 metres across that were ejected by the impact.
DART spacecraft's final images of Dimorphos, (from 11.5 seconds before impact).
Webb's First Deep Field
Stacked image of Dimorphos true orientation