ESA Spacecraft To Gauge NASA's Asteroid Deviation Trial

摘要

As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, a catastrophic event at a global scale is not just a phenomenon found in science fiction movies. And even as citizens the world over continue working to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, scientists still must keep a vigilant eye toward the sky for a common movie threat: asteroids. With such a catastrophic event in mind, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission will be the first program aimed at impacting an asteroid to deviate its path. The current crisis only reinforces the case for such a trial and the creation of models to help deviate any Earth-threatening asteroid.