Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a planetary defense mission to test an asteroid redirection method,
NASA will be live streaming the operation.The DART probe's sole instrument, the Didymos and Asteroid Survey Optical Navigation Camera (DRACO), will transmit approximately one image per second as it approaches the target.
Their goal is a small celestial body orbiting the asteroid Didymos at a distance of about 11 million km from Earth.
But the camera will stop working when it crashes intoDimorphos at a speed of 6.6 km / s. But the Rome-based Virtual Telescope project wants to broadcast the immediate aftermath of the DART collision in real time using ground-based telescopes.
Since the telescopes of the Virtual Telescope Project are notcan watch the collision, the organization has partnered with two South African observatories: Klein Karoo, operated by amateur astronomer Berto Monard, and Northwestern University's Mahikeng Astronomical Observatory.
The view from ground-based telescopes will not be detailed -the Didymos system is just a dot in the sky as seen from Earth - but if all goes according to plan, it will be possible to see increased brightness during and after the impact.
In order to take a closer look at the collision,will have to wait. DART previously launched the Italian Space Agency's Light Asteroid Imaging CubeSat (LICIACube), which will fly past the impact site three minutes later. These images will be released within a day of the collision.
Live broadcast will be available in the recording.
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