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Asteroid’s path altered in NASA’s first test of planetary defense

View of the Didymos and Dimorphos from a different perspective, which can be useful to determine the shapes of the asteroids, in this image acquired by Italian Space Agency's (ASI) LICIACube satellite just after its closest approach to the Dimorphos asteroid, after the Double Asteroid Redirect Test, or DART mission, made impact on September 26, 2022. ASI/NASA/Handout via REUTERS