NASA's historic mission to deflect an asteroid kicked up voluminous debris into space.
The images were taken between September 26, 2022 and October 25, 2022. Streaks of light seen in the background are due to the apparent movement of background stars.
Image“When we observe the objects in our Solar System, we are looking at the sunlight that is scattered by their surface or by their atmosphere, which becomes partially polarized,” said Stefano Bagnulo, an astronomer at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium in the UK and lead author of one of the studies“Tracking how the polarization changes with the orientation of the asteroid relative to us and the Sun reveals the structure and composition of its surface,” Bagnulo added.
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