November 2, 2024

Launch of NASA’s DART asteroid mission may be visible from California and the Southwestern US

The launch of NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) objective will be visible in the night sky over Southern California.”DART will release on a southerly trajectory and, with clear weather, must be noticeable from the Southern California coast,” NASA launch director Tim Dunn informed Space.comRelated: NASAs DART asteroid-impact objective discussed in images”Ill … give folks in the southwest USA and northwest Mexico a heads up that if our crack mission style leads quotes are right, the launch needs to be visible,” Andy Rivkin, DART investigation co-lead at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, composed on Twitter Saturday (Nov. 20). The firm prepares a live launch stream and will also have several social events happening for a virtual close-up view of launch preparations.Follow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter @howellspace.