Google has a fun doodle if you search for “nasa dart”, about the spacecraft we launched to intercept an asteroid to test its effect at changing the asteroid’s orbit.
@mike808 Where did this come from, TFG’s “Truth” Social account? The only way it could have more inaccuracies stuffed into it is if the Tangerine Tyrant went at it with a Sharpie!
@ircon96 It’s an illustration, not an engineering blueprint. Ignoring the clickbait headline and “destroying” hype, it conveys the mission.
Asteroid B orbits Asteroid A. Slam a spacecraft into Asteroid B and measure what changes, if any, are there in the orbits. A basic Newtonian physics experiment.
It’s called “science”. Something TFG knows nothing of. The point is to have empirical evidence this theory has a chance of providing a working solution if we do encounter a LTE (Life Terminating Event) asteroid along the lines of the future documentary “Armageddon”.
@mike808 Yeah, I’m acquainted with the basics of the project, I was referring more to the typos (“Didynos” ) & the fact that the moonlet was given its own name (Dimorphos) more than 2 years ago when they decided it would be the target of the mission. My joke (hence the laughy face) was mostly aimed at TFG’s aggressive ignorance of anything science-related (or even fact-adjacent, for that matter).
@ircon96@mike808 Didn’t get it so I had to look up “TFG” – oh, yeah, that guy… Is he still around? Currently watching science-denier DeSantosLand getting a lesson from the bad Mother (Mother Nature is getting all heated about our willful ignorance)
@pmarin YW. I’m using FF on my desktop and moving to Brave on Android, so I have to remember that it still exists. And when something is only on those platforms, I try to make it easier for everyone else to get … public information.
Illustration of the mission
@mike808 Where did this come from, TFG’s “Truth” Social account? The only way it could have more inaccuracies stuffed into it is if the Tangerine Tyrant went at it with a Sharpie!
@ircon96 It’s an illustration, not an engineering blueprint. Ignoring the clickbait headline and “destroying” hype, it conveys the mission.
Asteroid B orbits Asteroid A. Slam a spacecraft into Asteroid B and measure what changes, if any, are there in the orbits. A basic Newtonian physics experiment.
It’s called “science”. Something TFG knows nothing of. The point is to have empirical evidence this theory has a chance of providing a working solution if we do encounter a LTE (Life Terminating Event) asteroid along the lines of the future documentary “Armageddon”.
@mike808 Yeah, I’m acquainted with the basics of the project, I was referring more to the typos (“Didynos”
) & the fact that the moonlet was given its own name (Dimorphos) more than 2 years ago when they decided it would be the target of the mission. My joke (hence the laughy face) was mostly aimed at TFG’s aggressive ignorance of anything science-related (or even fact-adjacent, for that matter).
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasas-first-planetary-defense-mission-target-gets-a-new-name
@ircon96 @mike808 Didn’t get it so I had to look up “TFG” – oh, yeah, that guy… Is he still around? Currently watching science-denier DeSantosLand getting a lesson from the bad Mother (Mother Nature is getting all heated about our willful ignorance)
@ircon96 @mike808
/image trip to the moon poster 1902
NASA article with the last images in a 39 second video.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/dart-s-final-images-prior-to-impact
Meh, unless the asteroid fought back.
@phendrick The dinosaurs have a fossil to pick with you.
For the Twitter-free:
https://gizmodo.com/telescopes-capture-dart-asteroid-impact-1849585394/
As a GIF:
@mike808 Thanks, some of us do our best to remain twitter and facebook-free.
@pmarin YW. I’m using FF on my desktop and moving to Brave on Android, so I have to remember that it still exists. And when something is only on those platforms, I try to make it easier for everyone else to get … public information.
Cute!!!
@macromeh hard to believe that scene came out only 5 years after the “last” manned (real, actual, not a hoax) Moon mission.
Not quite a landspeeder, but.
/image apollo 17 moon rover
Good CGI, eh?
@macromeh @pmarin Damn shame that the studio shot it in NTSC, we’ll never get a 4K version now.</sarcasm>
What I didn’t know was they had brought along an Italian satellite to record the event!
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220929.html
@stolicat That’s neat - I didn’t know that either.
@stolicat The Italian satellite is there to measure how the orbit changes after the impact.
Check out this shiny launch:
Via Ars Technica’s Rocket Report.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/rocket-report-be-4-engine-breathes-fire-delta-iv-heavy-puts-on-a-show/