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The DART Mission

diagram of a spacecraft impacting the smaller of two asteroids
May 6, 2019
Credit NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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Artist's concept of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission – NASA’s first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense technique – which will impact the small moonlet in the binary asteroid system Didymos.