Okay, that's gonna be a shot.
by a petite Italian micro-satellite, dubbed LICIACube, which will reportedly be gathering its own imagery as well.
According to NASA officials, the agency is hoping that employing the telescopes will help researchers better examine the asteroid's post-collision ejecta. Asteroids have a penchant forAt the end of the day, data is what the DART redirection test is all about. Sure, we want to have some sort of protocol for deflecting a potentially species-ending asteroid away from the space rock we call home, but this is also a completely unprecedented experiment.
Turning the eyes of these many unique, powerful instruments towards the collision will hopefully shed new light on what might exactly happen when NASA basically throws a battering ram at an innocent moonlet, absolutely. But it's also a chance to learn some more about asteroids in general. And as we probably don't intend on destroying or redirecting asteroids on the regular, best to glean as much information as we possibly can.
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