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There is supposed to be video or at least a sequence of stills from DART up to the moment it goes splat on the target asteroid. This stream goes live at 6 pm EDT.
Edit: NASA live feed. No sound, just a white dot in the middle of a black field.
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nice
dimorphos did nothing wrong!
I expected a much smoother surface. Very cool that JWST and Hubble and Lucy and ground based telescopes “on every continent” are watching. This is way neater stuff than space tourism.
So we can intercept an asteroid going 14,000 mph but we can’t intercept an ICBM?
I’m not up to date on missile defense technology but we have roughly working systems; Idk but expect low reliability of interception, especially considering countermeasures like decoys. This asteroid is small but still almost twice as big as a football field. Huge compared to an ICBM. And they couldn’t even be sure they’d hit it.
Pretty cool stuff.
https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1574539270987173903?s=46&t=nc3bjbu6G-kPruUJUVNtWQ
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Science rules.
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That’s what they want you to think.
Yo, fuck that asteroid.
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dismorphos did nothing wrong!
La-la-la… BAM!
https://twitter.com/fallingstarIfA/status/1574583529731670021?t=Hy8NfN-KDCRB-wITCpbNKA&s=19
https://mobile.twitter.com/DARTprobe/status/1574537450470354944
https://mobile.twitter.com/DARTprobe/status/1574538291449237505
https://mobile.twitter.com/DARTprobe/status/1574538113933668353
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Pics from cubesat following DART.
https://twitter.com/andreabettini/status/1574787829573554179?t=RAic0mqW3g_LaQZd_xcV3Q&s=19
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The sheer scope of the universe is mindblowing
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I fucking love control room celebrations. It must be so exhilirating to see years of your life come to fruition in a single moment.
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