NASA concept video shows how we might save Earth from rogue asteroids
 

NASA concept video shows how we might save Earth from rogue asteroids
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We've all seen those blockbuster ****** in which scientists lay out complicated, risky plans to save Earth from an incoming asteroid. And those plans are almost always dependent on a bit of luck.*

But what would really happen in real life?*

NASA thinks it has an answer, and the space agency demonstrated that solution in a concept video (below) posted on Friday.*

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The video shows NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) vehicle deliberately crashing itself into one component of the binary asteroid system called Didymos.* Read more...

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