By Aazam
Dart spacecraft of NASA have completed colliding with an asteroid - Dimorphism - in a defense test against cosmic objects
Videos uploaded by the US space agency shows the spacecraft of the target asteroid, moments before the collision
Dart speeds at 14,000 mph towards the harmless asteroid is humanity’s first attempt to shift the position of any other natural object in space
The impact of collision with the asteroid is located 9.6 million kilometers - away from the Earth
After the collision Dimorphism was alone in the pictures with boulders and rubble on the surface
The photos of the impact were captured by a mini satellite of Italian Cubesat- released from Dart two weeks ago
After Dart spacecraft of the size of a vending machine navigated to its target using technology created by Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory