365K views · 1.8K shares | In 2022, our first planetary defense test mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), will attempt to change the motion of a small moonlet, Dimorphos, that poses no threat to Earth. This demonstration, led by the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), will test a new asteroid deflection technology: www.nasa.gov/dart | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook

238K views · 1.6K reactions | Impactful observations of data from NASA's #DARTMission are uncovering how some binary asteroid pairs come to be and change over time. In 2022, the DART mission sent a spacecraft to intentionally collide with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos and was effective in shifting its orbit. | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center | Facebook

99K views · 5.6K reactions | Congrats to the #DARTMission on a successful impact! DART deliberately collided into an asteroid and made history as the first full-scale #PlanetaryDefense test. NASA's Johnson Space Center Chief Scientist for Small Body Exploration, Dr. Paul Abell, served as an investigation team member for DART. He has been working on the mission for over 10 years. | NASA's Johnson Space Center | Facebook

237K views · 1.8K reactions | A new spin on asteroid formation: how...