DART impact
by JackDesBwa 2025-12-09 11:01
On September 26th, 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted asteroid Dimorphos orbiting around asteroid Didymos. The impact was recorded by LICIACube CubeSat whose low definition pictures I found allowed to create this 3D image.
The black dot roughly in the center is the impacted Dimorphos asteroid, while the big mass in foreground next to it is Didymos. The debris are in the background, because the camera flew behind the two asteroid after the impact.
-- 2022-10-26, LICIACube LUKE camera