On Sept. 27, NASA's DART mission will do something that's never been done — and we'll get to watch it live.
Television. Officials anticipate the real show will happen about two minutes before impact, when the asteroid begins filling the view of the camera."We're honestly super-excited to see what it looks like," said Michelle Chen, lead engineer for a DART algorithm known as SMART Nav.
This all is valuable practice for a method of asteroid deflection called kinetic impacting. Should some asteroid of the future be on a collision course with Earth, perhaps an impactor like this could knock it out of the way. That said, NASA officials have emphasized that there is no known asteroid threat to human civilization for at least the next 100 years, and scientists conduct searches constantly to verify that.
"We're going to be streaming images the whole time," Smith said. The images will move from DRACO through the avionics of the spacecraft and then beam back to Earth via radio. NASA's Deep Space Network of satellite dishes will pick up the signal to send it to broadcasts live on Earth.called LICIACube that launched with DART will be taking images of its own, safely away from the site of the impact. That footage should beam back to Earth in the following days.
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