NASA satellite crashes to Earth
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According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.
A camera on NASA's DART spacecraft captures Dimorphos, left, and Didymos as it approaches for a direct hit of the smaller of the two, Dimorphos, in September 2022. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL A NASA spacecraft that smashed into an asteroid on purpose ...
There were concerns that Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon or Earth.
Weighing just over 1,300 pounds, NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is hurtling toward Earth, its fiery re-entry set to slam into the atmosphere later tonight.
Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to miss in the final images NASA’s DART spacecraft took before it slammed into Dimorphos in 2022.