[4k, 60fps, stabilized] (2022). Impact into an asteroid: NASA’s DART mission for planetary defense.

Upscaled and enhanced version: NASA’s first flight mission for planetary defense, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat. The DART mission aims to shift an asteroid’s orbit through kinetic impact – specifically, by smashing a spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary asteroid system Didymos. 00:00 - 00:48 - Final approach to the asteroid filmed from the probe itself. 00:48 - 01:02 - Impact into the asteroid filmed from the Atlas Telescope in South Africa. Source: Nasa/The ATLAS Project. Music: Fantasia, Vaughan Williams. Not a XIXth Century video, sorry for the offtopic. Join as a member to support this channel: