What happens when you smash a spacecraft into an asteroid? The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a picture of the resulting debris field.
NASA, ESA, David Jewitt , and Alyssa Pagan . Now, the resulting debris has been captured in stunning detail by the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing a glittering field of small boulders. saw a 600-kilogram spacecraft impact Dimorphous, which orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos, to see if it could alter the space rock’s orbit as a practice run for future dangerous asteroids.
at the University of California at Los Angeles and his colleagues used the Hubble Space Telescope to learn more about the debris expelled by the collision. They found 37 large boulders, ranging in size from 1 to almost 7 metres across, seen as small sparkles of light on the picture above.The rocks are likely to have been loosely tied to Dimorphous’ surface, rather than shards of rocks from the body of the asteroid itself.
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