NASA DART spacecraft prelaunch

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft onboard at Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA before launch. The spacecraft will crash into the asteroid Didymos in an experiment to see if the Earth might be protected against an asteroid collision by changing an asteroid's orbit. Photographed during sunrise on the 23rd November 2021.

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Photo credit: © NASA/BILL INGALLS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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