Hubble Sheds New Light On NASA’s DART Asteroid Impact Target

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li (PSI); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale
HOUSTON—New imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has revealed an unexpected second trail of debris emerging from Dimorphos, the asteroid target for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impact on Sept. 26. The blow was intended to demonstrate a strategy for altering the...

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