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Human for scale shows true size of enormous asteroid hit in DART mission

Por: Newsweek Tech October 06, 2022

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A Reddit post has helped to put the true size of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos—best known as the target of NASA's DART mission on September 27—into perspective by comparing it to a human.Dimorphos has attracted global attention over the past two weeks after NASA slammed a small spacecraft into it at around 14,000 miles per hour as a test of our ability to defend Earth from an impending asteroid strike.The idea was that altering... + full article



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