The American space agency, NASA, has successfully smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in order to change its path. The probe was steered into Dimorphos, a 160 m-wide asteroid, on purpose in an attempt to change the rock’s course.
The collision took place about 11 million kilometres away from earth. It changed the path of the asteroid
NASA carried out the experiment as a test to defend the earth from asteroids that could hit our planet sometime in the future.
Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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