NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) simulation suggests the spacecraft can completely destroy the asteroid it collides with rather than just leaving a crater. The DART mission was conceived to test the world's technologies that can save the planet in the future by intentionally crashing a space rocket into an asteroid that poses no threat to the earth.

The first asteroid strike can inflict serious damage to the earth. Although predicting the next asteroid strike is impossible, there is a good chance that it will cause harm to many people. This is why NASA's DART mission can avert this crisis.

Asteroids large enough to cause regional devastation pass within five million miles of the earth every year, which is where potentially hazardous asteroids are cut off. The impact of a spacecraft on the planet could be devastating, so NASA is planning to launch a spacecraft that will attempt to divert its course if humans are still around the day when one hit.

The DART spacecraft was successfully launched on November 24, 2021, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and its collision is scheduled for anywhere between 26 September 2022 and 2 October 2022. In order to determine if the mission is successful, the spacecraft must crash into the smaller of the two asteroids revolving around one another.

In a National Geographic report, Megan Bruck Syal said that it would be virtually impossible to measure with high precision if it weren't binary. 'This is a unique opportunity to test the effectiveness of kinetic impactors on real asteroids.'

Many asteroids have caused much of destruction on our planet over the years. For instance, in February 2013, an asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia. The blast from this asteroid's shock wave broke windows more than 60 miles away, even though it exploded about 18 miles above the ground.

It released 500 kilotons of TNT worth of energy. Shattered glass and debris from the building were responsible for the injuries of 1,200 people, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure.

An asteroid of approximately 30 meters in diameter exploded over Tunguska in Siberia in 1908 after entering the atmosphere. During its quick plunge into the atmosphere, the 220-million-pound space rock heated the air surrounding it to 44.5000 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NASA Science.

NASA Science estimates the asteroid traveled at a speed of 33,500 miles per hour. Pressure and heat caused the asteroid to disintegrate, resulting in a fireball and releasing energy equivalent to 185 Hiroshima bombs. Nearly 80 million trees were destroyed in the explosion, which covered an area of 830 square miles. However, no human casualties were reported.

“Tunguska is the best way to start a conversation with anyone in the asteroid business,” Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Near-Earth Object Office, said in a NASA report. We have the only first-hand account of a large meteoroid from the modern era.”

“Suddenly the north sky split in two, and the whole northern part of the sky appeared to be on fire high above the forest... Then there was a bang and a mighty crash, followed by sounds similar to stones falling from the sky. A witness, who was thrown from his chair during the explosion, told NASA Science that the earth trembled.

Asteroids have also been blamed for wiping out dinosaurs 65 million years ago by an asteroid roughly 6 to 9 miles in diameter that hit Mexico. This asteroid killed 70 percent of the planet's species, including dinosaurs, as well.

In accordance with geological records, the asteroid struck the water, creating megatsunamis that reached Texas and Florida in the United States, resulting from southeastern Mexico. In the event that the blast had hit the ground, it would have thrown chunks of the asteroid and the Earth so high up that they would briefly exit the atmosphere and then crash back into the planet.