NASA's DART mission successfully altered the motion of a space rock, impacting the tiny moon of an asteroid and capturing footage with onboard camera and the Italian robotic onlooker, LICIACube.
Findings from the mission include the older surface of the larger asteroid Didymos compared to its moon, Dimorphos, and the revelation that Didymos is essentially a pile of rubble from a past catastrophic event.
The age of the Didymos surface is estimated to be around 12.5 million years, while Dimorphos' surface is only 90,000 to 300,000 years old, both showcasing intriguing differences.
Observations show that Didymos is made up of remnants from an ancient event, with boulders too large to have been excavated by crater creators, indicating a complex formation process.
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