Description
NASA’s DART Mission Team describe the goals of the DART mission and the historic nature of its success as they show footage of the impact.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Based on the clip, why is it good that NASA lost signal with the DART spacecraft?
- Why was this mission historic?
- Describe the footage of DART’s impact. What is special about it?
- Based on the clip, what were the goals of the mission and how long did it take to get more information on its impact?
- Why does the team think that the people of Earth should “sleep better” since their mission was a success?
Additional Resources
Participants
Vocabulary
- Asteroid
- Celestial
- Precision
- Quantitative