NASA's DART rocket successfully collided with a non-threatening asteroid, providing optimism of Earth's ability to defend itself from potential threats from space. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from AP, foxheadlines, and Reuters:
on Tuesday after the rocket collided with an asteroid 6.8 million miles away from Earth. The asteroid did not pose a threat to the planet, but the mission was conducted to gauge humanity's ability to alter the direction of potentially threatening asteroids.released by NASA, Lindley Johnson, NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer, said “DART’s success provides a significant addition to the essential toolbox we must have to protect Earth from a devastating impact by an asteroid.
Coupled with enhanced capabilities to accelerate finding the remaining hazardous asteroid population by our next Planetary Defense mission, the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, a DART successor could provide what we need to save the day.”, and collided with the football stadium-sized asteroid at 14,000 mph.
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