DART: Double Asteroid Redirection Test

The final five-and-a-half minutes of images leading up to the DART spacecraft's intentional collision with asteroid Dimorphos.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

Infographic showing the effect of DART's impact on the orbit of Dimorphos.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, taken (left to right) 22 minutes, 5 hours, and 8.2 hours after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, Jian-Yang Li (PSI); image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

A series of radar images captured at different times on Oct. 9, 2022, of the Didymos and Dimorphos binary asteroid system.

Credit: NASNASA/Johns Hopkins APL/JPL/NASA JPL Goldstone Planetary Radar/National Science Foundation’s Green Bank ObservatoryNASA/Johns Hopkins APL/JPL/A/Johns Hopkins APL/JPL/NASA JPL Goldstone Planetary Radar/National Science Foundation's Green Bank Observatory

An image from ASI’s LICIACube show the plumes of ejecta streaming from the Dimorphos asteroid after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Test,

Credit: ASI/NASA/APL