Google’s new Easter Egg: how to crash the Dart probe on your screen
At 1.14 (Italian time) the Dart probe crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos in the first planetary defense test in the history of space exploration.
The first mission of planetary defense in the history of space exploration it has become an Easter Egg on Google. Writing Nasa e Dart in the search bar of the browser on your screen a ‘dedicated animation: a probe with the features of Dart will arrive from the left of the screen to crash into the asteroids that appear in the images selected by your search.
The Easter Egg does not end with the crash. The impact of the asteroid in fact will leave tilted the entire list of your searches for the entire duration of the navigation. By clicking on the individual results, however, the page will return to normal. To repair the damage from the impact, simply click another link or scroll forward with the search. The easter egg does not work on a smartphone
The mission of the Dart probe
The impact occurred around 1.14, Italian time. NASA crashed the probe Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) against the asteroid Dimorphos, a celestial body 170 meters in diameter. Dimorphos’s route posed no danger to the Earth: NASA’s goal was only to understand if it was possible to change the trajectory of an asteroid through an impact. In fact, Dart crashed at a speed of about 24,000 kilometers per hour. At the moment the outcome of the experiment is not yet known: it will take years to study all the data.
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