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Well, now we've torn it.
A mission to divert the course of an asteroid in September 2022 may have been a wild success, but it hasn't been without collateral damage.
A new analysis of the debris ejected from the asteroid Dimorphos when NASA slammed the DART spacecraft into it has revealed that some of the rocks could be on a collision course with Mars.
That doesn't seem like a big deal at the moment, because there's no one on Mars to worry about… but by the time the rocks are due to intersect with Mars's orbit, there very well might be, if crewed missions go according to plan.
www.sciencealert.com
A mission to divert the course of an asteroid in September 2022 may have been a wild success, but it hasn't been without collateral damage.
A new analysis of the debris ejected from the asteroid Dimorphos when NASA slammed the DART spacecraft into it has revealed that some of the rocks could be on a collision course with Mars.
That doesn't seem like a big deal at the moment, because there's no one on Mars to worry about… but by the time the rocks are due to intersect with Mars's orbit, there very well might be, if crewed missions go according to plan.
NASA Mission Accidentally Sends Space Rocks Hurtling Towards Mars
Well, now we've torn it.
www.sciencealert.com
