*ISLAMABAD – Where there is a fear of giant asteroid crashing into Earthand destroying it someday, NASA scientists are trying to fight that bycreating a spacecraft that will slam into an asteroid and save humanity.*
An upcoming NASA mission is being made as a planetary-defense mission tosmash a probe into a distant asteroid at an astounding speed of 21,000km/h.
If successful, the mission will produce as astonishing collision and savehumanity from ultimate destruction.
Named as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or better known as DART; anacronym that acknowledges the delicate aim needed to collide with anasteroid dubbed ‘Didymoon’ at an extraordinary speed.
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The idea of this mission, as per DART team member Nancy Chabot, is that thespacecraft’s extreme velocity could cause a small change in the ‘killerasteroid’s’ direction, hence sending it off course years before the impacteven takes place.
