26213203The United States Space Agency (NASA) reported this Monday (26) who successfully carried out the first mission to test a defense technology against asteroids or comets that may pose a danger to Earth.2621320326213203According to NASA, the space probe of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, launched ten months ago, hit the target asteroid Dimorphos, which poses no threat to Earth, about million kilometers from our planet.
Further analysis will point out whether the impact, which occurred at a speed of 22 thousand kilometers per hour, it really changed the asteroid’s orbit, objective of the mission.
“We are embarking on a new era of humanity, an era in which we potentially will have the ability to protect ourselves from something like a dangerous asteroid impact,” said Lori Glaze, director of the Division of Planetary Science at NASA.
