One of the largest unseen and oblivious to the dangers of humanity, a large meteor that could hit Earth had mobilized the scientific world years ago. In this context, NASA has planned its mission called ‘DART’ and an asteroid’s first contact to disrupt its orbit had accomplished.
During last night’s contact, a special spacecraft was developed that actually poses no threat to our Earth It was sent to the asteroid ‘Dimorphos’. The spacecraft successfully crashed into the asteroid. While the post-crash photos could not be taken by the vehicle, new photos emerged from an important place today.
This is how the spacecraft hit the asteroid:
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Hubble Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope, which was sent into space in December and recently began operations, observed the meteorite and the spacecraft sent by NASA to perform the DART mission this time. In addition, this observation was made simultaneously with the Hubble Space Telescope. Two telescopes, so aimed at the same target at the same time for the first time.
In the images in question, after the collision with the meteorite, the scattering of the meteorite in space trail of dust and particles can be seen. However, the lenses of both Hubble and Webb are beginning to see the structure more clearly as these particles scatter in space during the collision.
image from the James Webb Space Telescope, the period from just before the collision to 5 hours after while Hubble is collision free. After 22 minutes, 5 hours and 8.2 hours shows. NASA has announced that the same meteorite system will be observed by Webb and the chemical structure of Dimorphos will be studied.
Source: Web Tekno
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