Dart Asteroid Collision mission successful, here's what NASA said.
The world's first step towards planetary defenses successful, NASA announced late Tuesday.
The double asteroid redirection test dart where spacecraft was intentionally made to smash into an asteroid has brought back positive results.
NASA has said that the experimental spacecraft has altered the orbit of asteroid dimorphos as per the machines objective.
The American Space Agency collected and analyse data over 2 weeks and found that the impact of DART had shortened the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its parent asteroid Didymos by 32 minutes.
Before the impacts desired result, Dimorphos took 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit around Didymos.
This has now been changed to 11 hours and 23 minutes. NASA had smashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid on September 26th.
Since then, astronomers have been measuring the change in time of Dimorphos orbit using telescopes.
The assessment will improve in the coming days with more data, which will help scientists understand how to save Earth in case of an asteroid hurtling towards us for an impending collision.
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