NASA just slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Now, scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will try to figure out if it did what they needed it to do.
The spacecraft, named DART, slammed into the asteroid more than six million miles away from Earth while traveling at about 14,000 miles per hour. It was NASA's first-ever planetary defense test, and it may one day help scientists protect Earth from a catastrophic collision.
"The main goal is to learn how to deflect an asteroid when we don't need to so that if we ever do need to we’ll have the ability to develop that technology," NASA program scientist Tom Statler said. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been providing impact simulations and analysis for the DART mission since 2014. The team will now use high-tech computer models to help assess how much material is flying out of the hit asteroid and whether the crash forced it to change course.
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