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NASA's DART mission hits an asteroid: what time and how to see it

2022-09-26T11:47:01.966Z


This Monday, NASA's DART mission will deliberately crash into an asteroid and you can watch it live on the space agency's website.


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(CNN Spanish) --

This Monday, a NASA DART mission ship will deliberately crash into an asteroid and you can see it live on the space agency's website.

The DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, mission will have an encounter with the space rock 10 months after its launch.

Beginning at 5:30 pm Miami time that day, a live feed of the spacecraft's images will be available on NASA's website.

The impact is expected to occur around 7:14 pm Miami time.

About 45 minutes later, the space agency will give a conference in which it will evaluate the results of the impact.

Until that conference, the broadcast will last two and a half hours.

If you are in Mexico, the broadcast starts at 04:30 p.m. and the impact on the environment at 6:14 p.m. If you are in Buenos Aires, meanwhile, you can follow the broadcast from 6:30 p.m. and you should expect the impact around 8:14 pm

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The DART mission is headed for Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos.

The asteroid system poses no threat to Earth, NASA officials have said, making it a perfect target for testing a kinetic impact, which might be necessary if an asteroid is on its way to collide with Earth. .

The event will be the agency's first large-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology that can protect the planet.

How the DART collision with an asteroid will be recorded

This collision will be recorded by LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids), a companion cube satellite provided by the Italian Space Agency.

The briefcase-sized CubeSat traveled with DART into space.

It has recently been deployed from the spacecraft and is traveling behind it to record what is happening.

Three minutes after impact, the CubeSat will fly alongside Dimorphos to capture images and video.

The video will not be available immediately, but will be transmitted to Earth in the weeks and months following the collision.

With information from Ashley Strickland of CNN.

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Source: cnnespanol

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