Falcon 9 rocket and is now hurtling through deep space toward the binary near-Earth asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos.
"These remnants capture a time when planets like Earth were forming," she added."Asteroids and other small bodies also delivered water, other ingredients of life to Earth as it was maturing. We're studying these to learn more about the history of our solar system." That sentiment was echoed by Tom Statler, a DART program scientist at NASA."The first test is a test of our ability to build an autonomously guided spacecraft that will actually achieve the kinetic impact on the asteroid. The second test is a test of how the actual asteroid responds to the kinetic impact," Statler said.
"At this point, I can say that the team is ready," Reynolds added."The ground systems are ready, and the spacecraft is healthy and on track for an impact on Monday." "So in the next few days, we'll take more images of the Didymos system, we'll do trajectory correction maneuvers, and then at 24 hours prior to impact, it's all hands on deck," she added.
Monday.... 'Whoops, we missed!'
Thank you to the crew for all your hard work. 🎶🙌🏻🎶
y'all have no idea how excited i am for this
Chaos Theory ……… I’m sure at some point in time…… there will be regret… self fulfilled prophecy