{"id":124013,"date":"2021-10-08T07:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T07:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=124013"},"modified":"2021-10-08T07:11:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T07:11:33","slug":"nasas-dart-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/nasas-dart-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s DART Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Towards which of the following asteroid, NASA is going to launch asteroid-killing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft?<br><\/strong>a) Didymos<br>b) Bennu<br>c) Apophis<br>d) None of these<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On November 24, 2021; American Space Agency, NASA is going to launch asteroid-killing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft.<\/li><li>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket will be used for the launch of DART spacecraft.<\/li><li>Vandenberg Space Force Base in the California will be used by NASA for the launch.<\/li><li>NASA has planned to protect the Earth from hazardous asteroid collision and therefore building build advanced technologies for this purpose through such missions.<\/li><li>NASA is planning for this spacecraft because astronomers and scientists have warned about dangerous impact of asteroids.<\/li><li>They are of the opinion that asteroids might cause most damage to the Earth if proper defence system is not developed against them.<\/li><li>Today we know that an asteroid collision caused the extinction of dinosaurs from planet 66 million years ago.<\/li><li><strong>Targets:-<\/strong><\/li><li>Under the mission, spacecraft will be sent towards Didymos asteroid system, approximately 109.4 crore kilometres away from Earth.<\/li><li>Didymos system comprise of two asteroids namely, Didymos and Dimorphos.<\/li><li>How it will work<\/li><li>The DART mission is based on the idea of developing a defence system against asteroid collision.<\/li><li>The spacecraft will ram into Dimorphos in order to determine if kinetic impactor technology can be a reliable method to deflect asteroids.<\/li><li>Kinetic impactor technology requires flying the spacecraft directly into a small Solar System body.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-invites-media-to-launch-of-double-asteroid-redirection-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-invites-media-to-launch-of-double-asteroid-redirection-test<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Towards which of the following asteroid, NASA is going to launch asteroid-killing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft?a) Didymosb) Bennuc) Apophisd) None of theseAnswer: (a)Related Facts:- On November 24, 2021; American Space Agency, NASA is going to launch asteroid-killing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft. 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