Double Asteroid Redirection Test

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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission to test a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact can deflect an asteroid by hitting it head-on.

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Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.