This is what NASA's spacecraft saw just seconds before slamming into an asteroid
NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday night. These are the final images it captured as it hurtled toward the rocky surface.
by Rachel Treisman
Sep 27, 2022
2 minutes
NASA successfully slammed a spacecraft directly into an asteroid on Monday night, in a huge first for planetary defense strategy (and a move straight out of a sci-fi movie).
It's the high point of a NASA project known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, aka DART, which started some $300 million and seven years
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