Human for Scale Shows True Size of Enormous Asteroid Hit in DART Mission
http://www.newsweek.com/nasa-dart-dimorphos-images-human-scale-1749491
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.
Human for Scale Shows True Size of Enormous Asteroid Hit in DART Mission
Oct 6, 2022, 2:36pm UTC
http://www.newsweek.com/nasa-dart-dimorphos-images-human-scale-1749491
> 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.