LICIACube delivers first images of DART's wild asteroid crash
Image Credit: NASA/ASI)
NASA's DART mission was destined to die from the moment it was envisaged. On September 26, it met its fate after crashing into an asteroid. Fifteen days before its certain death, the spacecraft deployed a small satellite named LICIACube (Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroid) to capture its last moments. Now, we have the first of those images.