's DART spacecraft has its sights set on the asteroid Dimorphos that appears like a bright dot in the blackness of space.Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a box-shaped space probe, has activated its camera that will capture it crashing into the asteroid at 15,000 miles per hour at 7:14pm ET in an attempt to knock the space rock from its orbit.Such a mission may evoke memories of a Hollywood disaster movie such as Armageddon, but this is very much real and is actually part of the US space agency's first ever planetary defense test.
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