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NASA’s DART A Success!

by : Nur HusseinOctober 13, 2022October 31, 2022Leave a Comment on NASA’s DART A Success!

Two weeks ago, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) hit the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, with the goal of changing its orbital trajectory to see if we can indeed use a rocket to deflect asteroids. NASA’s press release yesterday confirms that they indeed managed to do this, after their team analyzed the data they’ve obtained thus […]

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NASA’s DART Hits Its Target

by : Nur HusseinSeptember 29, 2022September 29, 2022Leave a Comment on NASA’s DART Hits Its Target

Ten months ago, NASA launched a rocket into space to rendezvous with Dimorphos, a tiny asteroid 11 million kilometers away. It was part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, a planetary defense test to see if we could deflect any incoming asteroids that might collide with Earth. On September 26, 2022, at 7:14 […]

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Ingenuity Helicopter Flies!

by : Nur HusseinApril 19, 2021August 25, 2021Leave a Comment on Ingenuity Helicopter Flies!

Today, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, brought to Mars as a hitchhiker on the Perseverance rover, successfully took flight on the surface of Mars. This is the first time humanity has flown an aircraft on another planet! Since the atmosphere of Mars is less than 1% of that of Earth’s, the little helicopter’s rotors needed to be […]