NASA’s DART Mission: Learning to Defend Earth from Asteroid Impacts

Asteroid impacts have shaped the planets and altered the course of life on Earth. These natural catastrophes are part of the way our solar system works, and they have been happening for billions of years. But in human terms, an asteroid impact is something we would prefer to avoid. And we are beginning to have the ability to make it the only preventable natural disaster. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the first full-scale test of a viable asteroid deflection technology on a real asteroid. During this talk, Dr. Thomas Statler, Program Scientist for the DART mission, discusses how conducting this test now, when it is not urgent, on an asteroid that is not a danger to Earth, will put humanity in a better position to respond to a real impact threat, should an asteroid on a collision course with Earth ever be discovered. This was recorded on November 18, 2021.
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