Full Name of the mission:
Double Asteroid Redirection Test
(
DART
)
Launched from Earth on 24 November 2021
It was made to crash into
Dimorphos
, the minor-planet moon of the asteroid Didymos
Earth-based ATLAS observatory detected the ejecta plume from the DART impact
It has a diameter of 170 meters
It has been characterized as a low-density rubble pile
The ESA mission
Hera
is planned to arrive at the Didymos system in 2026 to further study
Hubble space telescope
recently observed a tail
sprouting out of this asteroid