{"id":4698,"date":"2022-09-28T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2022-10-24T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:29:48","slug":"mission-control-watch-party-of-dart-marking-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/mission-control-watch-party-of-dart-marking-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission control watch party of DART marking impact"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Monday, [Sept. 26], at 4:13 p.m. (Arizona time), more than 7 million miles away, NASA\u2019s DART mission, Double Asteroid Redirection Test, successfully slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, making history as the first step toward a possible future planetary defense strategy.<\/p>\n

Cristina Thomas<\/strong>, assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science and team lead on the DART mission, along with Jason Wilder<\/strong>, vice president for research, were at Mission control in Laurel, Maryland to witness the historic moment unfold.<\/p>\n

Read the full article and view Wilder’s video of the moments leading up to the impact below.here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, [Sept. 26], at 4:13 p.m. (Arizona time), more than 7 million miles away, NASA\u2019s DART mission, Double Asteroid Redirection Test, successfully slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, making history as the first step toward a possible future planetary defense strategy. Cristina Thomas, assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science and team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,187],"tags":[211,191],"class_list":["post-4698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-cristina-thomas","tag-dart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4701,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/4701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}