NASA sent a vending machine-sized spacecraft 7 million miles through space, just to crash it into the asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium. (The mission was to demonstrate that we could deflect asteroids away from Earth using this method!!)
IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth. pic.twitter.com/7bXipPkjWD
— NASA (@NASA) September 26, 2022