{"id":67006,"date":"2022-09-28T10:26:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=67006"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:29:14","slug":"mission-control-watch-party-dart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/mission-control-watch-party-dart\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission control watch party of DART marking impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, 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\u00a0Dimorphos, making history as the first step toward a possible future planetary defense strategy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cristina Thomas<\/strong>, assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science and team lead on the\u00a0DART\u00a0mission, along with <strong>Jason Wilder<\/strong>, vice president for research, were at Mission control\u00a0in Laurel, Maryland to witness the historic moment unfold.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Wilder\u2019s video of the moments leading up to the impact below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/dart-launch\/\">Read more about the DART mission.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HLy0bBO5efk\">Watch NASA\u2019s live coverage of the mission.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mission control watch party of DART making impact\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J83NadaJGb8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/mission-control-watch-party-dart\/\">On Monday, 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\u00a0Dimorphos, 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 lead on the\u00a0DART\u00a0mission,&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":64882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}