This Week NASA: World’s First Planetary Defense Test and Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa
And moving’s mega Moon rocket back inside ahead of that storm … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!On September 26, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or“Waiting … … and we have impact!”
DART’s intentional crash into Dimorphos, a moonlet of a larger asteroid called Didymos, was an attempt to alter the course of an asteroid in space as part of the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration. The DART team will observe Dimorphos with ground-based telescopes to confirm that the technique, known as kinetic impact, did indeed alter the moonlet’s orbit around Didymos.
Hurricane Ian is pictured approaching the west coast of Florida as a category 4 storm. The International Space Station was orbiting 259 miles above the Gulf of Mexico at the time of this photograph. Credit: NASA