“So we’re going to be seeing that data come down soon in the next couple of days and over the next two months we’re going to see more information from the investigation team on what period change we actually made.”ĭART Project manager at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Ed Reynolds speaks at the DART press conference in Laurel, Maryland, on Monday, September 26.
She added that some CubeSat images may emerge in the next day or two. So it’s not going to be tomorrow, I’m sorry, But we might see some LICIACube cube set images coming up the next day or two,” said Elena Adams, the DART mission systems engineer at at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. “So of course the ground base observatories are already taking data right now… but what we’re probably going to see in the next couple of months, we’re actually going to get confirmation of exact period change that we made. Three minutes after impact, LICIACube was to fly by Dimorphos to capture images and video of the impact plume and maybe even spy on the impact crater. 11 and was traveling behind to record what happens from a safe perspective. (NASA)Įngineers of the DART mission expect images taken of the collision and the aftermath by a brief-case-sized CubeSat within the next coming days, but actual quantitative data on the impact of the mission will take about two months.ĬubeSat, a briefcase-size satellite from the Italian Space Agency hitched a ride with DART into space. “We will be finding the exact impact site to really understand what kind of crater did we make, and of course, the ground-based observers are busy as we speak,” she said, adding that her team will be looking at data over the course of the next days and weeks to find out what really happened.Įlena Adams, the DART mission systems engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory speaks at the DART news conference on Monday. “We will spend the next months and years doing analysis of course our job has just started but it really looks just amazing,” she said at a news conference on Monday.ĭimorphos is covered in boulders and Ernst said she suspects it is a “loosely consolidated” rubble pile, similar to some of the other small asteroids they have seen. Images from the spacecraft’s onboard imager were humanity’s first look at the asteroid. It’s so cute,” said Carolyn Ernst, the DART DRACO instrument scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, describing the asteroid, Dimorphos. “It’s like adorable - it’s this little moon. (NASA)Īs the images rolled in from the DART mission as it sped toward an asteroid, one scientist could not take her eyes off the target. A view of Dimorphos seconds before the DART spacecraft hit the asteroid on Monday.
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