Penultimate image of Dimorphos by DART

Autor/Urheber:

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

Shortlink:

https://www.dewiki.de/b/325a18

Quelle:

Wikimedia Commons

Größe:

1041 x 1041 Pixel (677118 Bytes)

Beschreibung:

The last complete image of asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, taken by the DRACO imager on NASA's DART mission from ~7 miles (12 kilometers) from the asteroid and 2 seconds before impact. The image shows a patch of the asteroid that is 100 feet (31 meters) across. Dimorphos' north is toward the top of the image.

Lizenz:

Public domain

Credit:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/dart-s-final-images-prior-to-impact (image link); original upload from https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Gallery/ (image link)

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