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Here’s the last thing NASA’s DART asteroid spacecraft saw

NASA’s DART spacecraft is no more, but its final view is stunning.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was designed to test a kinetic impact, a technique that humans might use to adjust a threatening asteroid’s orbit and keep Earth out of harm’s way. Kinetic impact is just a more scientific way to describe slamming something heavy and fast-moving into an asteroid. So that’s precisely what the DART spacecraft did tonight (Sept. 26) at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT), crashing into a small asteroid called Dimorphos. And the result is a truly spectacular series of images.

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