From BRIGHT SIDE.
Brace yourself for an out-of-this-world update! NASA blew up an asteroid, but what happened next left scientists completely shocked. The debris from the DART impact is flying three times faster than expected and forming strange, almost intentional clusters. It’s as if the cosmos itself is playing a giant game of pool, and we might be missing the shot! This unexpected twist could change how we plan future asteroid-deflection missions. Tune in to see the unbelievable aftermath and why scientists are rethinking everything they thought they knew.
Credit:
Chelyabinsk Bolide Plume: By NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio – https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4094/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chelyabinsk_Bolide_Plume_as_seen_by_NPP_and_NASA_Models.ogv
NEOWISE: By NASA/JPL-Caltech; WISE-NEOWISE movies compiled by Dan Caselden; WISE imagery: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA; Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/Judy Schmidt; 10 years of NEOWISE data animation: IPAC/Caltech/University of Arizona; select asteroid animations from NASA Eyes on Asteroids; asteroid 2014 HQ124 radar imagery: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arecibo Observatory/USRA/NSF; Orion Nebula: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech; International Space Station footage: NASA Johnson Space Center; comet NEOWISE images: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab/Parker Solar Probe/Brendan Gallagher, and NASA/Bill Dunford, https://images.nasa.gov/details/JPL-20240801-NEOWISf-0001-NEOWISE%20Legacy%20of%20NASAs%20Asteroid%20Hunting%20Telescope
NEO Surveyor in Deep Space: By NASA/JPL-Caltech, https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA26388
DART: By NASA/Johns Hopkins APL, Scientific Visualization Studio – Marit Jentoft-Nilsen – https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31194, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DART-_Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Test_(SVS31194_-_DART_Infographic_KgIMeWpalQ0).webm
Telescopic Observations: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Candece Seling and Nate Rudolph, Jon Emmerich, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telescopic_Observations_An_animation_illustrati[…]uring_the_changing_brightness_of_the_system_over_time.webm
Collision with Dimorphos: By NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Jon Emmerich, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DART%27s_Collision_with_Dimorphos_(side_view)_A[…]_mission,_the_Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Test_(DART).webm
DARTejectavideo-Hubble: By NASA, ESA, STScI, and Jian-Yang Li (PSI); Video: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) – https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/time-lapse-video-of-didymos-dimorphos-system/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DARTejectavideo-Hubble.ogg
DART’s impact on Dimorphos: By NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Jon Emmerich, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orbital_effect_of_DART%27s_impact_on_Dimorphos.webm
Didymos Ridge Formation DART: By University of Michigan/Yun Zhang and Johns Hopkins APL/Olivier Barnouin, https://images.nasa.gov/details/Didymos_ridgeformation
Planetary Defense Test: By NASA, https://images.nasa.gov/details/The%20Results%20of%20Our%20DART%20Planetary%20Defens[…]20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20October%2014,%202022
Preflight Test: By NASA, https://images.nasa.gov/details/A%20Critical%20Preflight%20Test%20for%20Artemis%20I%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20September%2023,%202022
Didymos and Dimorphos: By NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/JPL/NASA JPL Goldstone Planetary Radar/National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Observatory – https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/nasa-dart-imagery-shows-changed-orbit-of-target-asteroid/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Views_of_the_Didymos_and_Dimorphos_binary_aster[…]l_Science_Foundation%E2%80%99s_Green_Bank_Observatory.webm
KSC-05-S-00088: By NASA Kennedy Space Center, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KSC-05-S-00088_(ksc_041505_dart_prepass).webm
DART AnimatedSequence: By NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben/Jessica Tozer, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DART_AnimatedSequence-2020_from_launch_to_impact_along_with_separation_of_LICIACube.webm
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Meteor over Chelyabinsk: By Aleksandr Ivanov / YouTube, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%92%D0%B7%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B2_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%[…]%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC_15_02_2013_avi-iCawTYPtehk.ogv
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Tunguska event effect areas 3: By Merikanto, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=153379076
Animation is created by Bright Side.
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