Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/DART asteroid redirection impact

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Original – DART's final 5.5 minutes until impact. This replay movie is 10 times faster than reality, except for the last six images, which are shown at the same rate that the spacecraft returned them.
Reason
Impact video of the DART asteroid redirection test on September 26, 2022. First video of its kind. For details see the lead section of the article.
Articles in which this image appears
Double Asteroid Redirection Test
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding
Creator
NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

Promoted File:Dart impact replay.webm --Armbrust The Homunculus 07:58, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]