NASA is two weeks away from intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid, and scientists believe the visuals sent back from the impact will be worth the wait.
On Sept. 26, the Double Asteroid Redirect Test spacecraft, known as DART, will be used as a battering ram to crash into an asteroid not far from Earth.
DART's camera continues to send back images of Didymos as it feeds images to the spacecraft's algorithm to steer the spacecraft as it moves closer to the moonlet. It uses a navigation system called the Small-body Maneuvering Autonomous Real-Time Navigation or SMART Nav to guide itself.
"It's going to start off as a little point of light, and then eventually it's going to zoom in and fill the whole entire field of view of the images that return. You'll be able to see things that can be centimeters pixel, and these images will continue until they don't. So that'll be a pretty definitive look into the final moments of the DART spacecraft," DART coordination lead Nancy Chabot said.
"These images come back to Earth at one per second, and the plan is to broadcast them live on the NASA TV broadcast. And like I said, these will be pretty stunning," Chabot explained. LICIACube will then fly past Dimorphos around three minutes after DART's demise to capture images of the impact's effects.
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