NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) attempted to develop technology to prevent asteroids from colliding with the Earth, and photographed the situation after the collision in the first experiment of hitting an asteroid far away from the Earth. An image has been released, and it is captured that the material that seems to have been blown away from the asteroid is spreading radially.
On the 26th of this month, NASA will collide with an asteroid "Dimorphos" with a diameter of about 160 meters, which is about 11 million kilometers away from the earth, with a probe weighing about 570 kilograms, and see if the orbit changes due to the impact. experiment was conducted.
Recently, in order to observe the state after the collision, images taken by another small probe that was ejected from the probe in advance have been released.
The image was taken a few minutes after the collision, and shows the radial spread of material that seems to have been blown away from the asteroid.
Another nearby asteroid is visible in the foreground of the colliding asteroid.
A research team at the University of Hawaii also released images captured before and after the collision from a telescope on the ground.
The frame-by-frame video recorded the gradual spread of material that was believed to have been blown away from the asteroid by the collision.
NASA aims to develop technology to prevent asteroids and other celestial bodies from colliding with the Earth in the future, and the research team continues to analyze in detail how the asteroid's orbit changed due to the collision. increase.