Result of NASA Spacecraft collision with Asteroid Discovered By Hubble Telescope

Last year, the DART spacecraft of the American space agency NASA collided with the asteroid Dimorphos. The Hubble Space Telescope has detected the impact of this collision. This spacecraft was deliberately collided with Dimorphos on September 26 last year so that its course could be changed.

Astronomers Hubble Using the telescope, large stones have been discovered that may have emerged after the DART spacecraft weighing half a ton collided with Dimorphos. NASA said in a press release that this spacecraft collided with the asteroid at a speed of approximately 14,000 miles per hour. Images received from the Hubble telescope show that this collision has thrown 37 boulders or big stones into the cosmos. The size of these stones ranges from one meter to seven meters. In a study, scientists have found that such a collision can also bring these stones towards the Earth to change the path of dangerous asteroids.

However, the stones emanating from Dimorphos pose no threat to the Earth because they are moving away from the asteroid at a speed of about one kilometer per hour. This speed is almost similar to that of a big turtle. This month, a rocket launched by billionaire Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has created a temporary crater in the ionosphere near the Earth. SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in the US on July 19.

A faint red light is visible in the photos of its launch. Jeff Baumgardner, a space physicist at Boston University, told spaceweather.com that this red light indicates the presence of a crater in the ionosphere. He said, “There is a possibility of this happening when rockets burn their engines 200 to 300 kilometers above the earth’s surface. It is seen that this has happened in the burning of the second stage engine.” The ionosphere at the edge of space is full of charged particles called ions. The ionosphere is important because it modifies radio waves used in communication and navigation. Due to formation of pothole in it, GPS systems can be affected and the accuracy of location can change by a few feet.