On September 27, the US Space Agency NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Spacecraft collided with an asteroid named Dimorphos. Everyone watched the final moments of the spacecraft before it collided with the asteroid’s surface and was destroyed. How the collision of the spacecraft was could not be seen because the camera on the Dart broke after the collision. But LICIACube, a cube satellite, captured Dart’s picture from a different angle, showing how this historic collision looked in space.
In the CubeSat images, it can be seen that after the collision, bright matter is coming out of the surface of Dimorphos. Didymos can be seen in its background. Argotec Space, the Italian company that makes CubeSats for the Italian Space Agency, wrote in a tweet, ‘These are pictures of the world’s first planetary defense mission captured by LICIACube. This is where the NASA Dart mission collided. A wonderful moment, the beginning of new discoveries.
Estimation of a pit of 33 to 65 feet The mission team is curious to know how large a crater has formed on the asteroid after the impact of Dart. Scientists estimate that the crater may be 33 to 65 feet in size, which may contain several pieces of spacecraft. Researchers will determine the success of the mission by studying changes in the orbit of Dimorphos around Didymos. Before this collision, it took Dimorphos 11 hours 55 minutes to circle 780 meters wide Didymos. If the mission Is successful then this time can be reduced by a few minutes.
