Elon Musk's rocket will save Earth, NASA will 'attack' asteroids for the first time
For the primary time, the US space agency NASA has taken a step further within the mission to avoid wasting the world from the threat of an asteroid. This planetary defense mission will be started by the tip of this month. Under this, the collision of the asteroid with the moon of the asteroid will be done. NASA keeps an eye fixed on all such threats that threaten the destruction of the planet and along with scientists and agencies round the world, work is additionally being done to scale back this danger.
NASA's first target is that the near-Earth asteroid Didymos, which has been selected for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. This asteroid was discovered about 20 years ago. It also encompasses a moon and hence is additionally called a 'twin' asteroid. Through this test, scientists will attempt to see whether the danger looming on Earth because of asteroids is reduced with a collision with a spacecraft.
NASA will crash the device on the asteroid's moon at a speed of 14 mph. this can be expected to cut back the speed of the moon by 1%. With this, It will come closer that will extend the view from telescopes on Earth. The spacecraft will have alternative energy generators, powerful cameras and sensors to review the impact of the crash. Once the mission is successful, it'll be easier for NASA to figure on the Planetary weapons system.
The spacecraft will be carried by Elon Musk's SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket later this month and can reach the asteroid in a few year. There are over 25,000 giant asteroids in Nasa's system. Many of those are such within the coming 100 years, there is also a risk of collision. That's why scientists keep studying them.
The orbit of asteroids is like this, but passing near a large planet or the energy produced by burning them because of gravity or the warmth of the sun may also change the orbit. If asteroids impinge on the world, then great destruction can happen. because of these, the quantity of harm may be caused as fission bomb explosion, while the nice tsunami within the oceans can submerge the world. it's believed that dinosaurs also died from Earth thanks to collision with asteroids.