Asteroid-smashing NASA probe sent boulders into space

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 22, 2023 12:08 am

Paris, France: When a NASA spacecraft successfully knocked an asteroid off course last year it sent dozens of boulders skittering into space, images from the Hubble telescope showed on Thursday.

NASA's fridge-sized DART probe smashed into the pyramid-sized, rugby ball-shaped asteroid Dimorphos roughly 11 million kilometers (6.8 million miles) from Earth in September last year.

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