Last image showing all of Didymos & Dimorphos by DART (cropped)
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NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
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Asteroid Didymos (the bigger/nearer one) and its moonlet, Dimorphos, about 2.5 minutes before the impact of NASA's DART spacecraft. The image was taken by the on board DRACO imager from a distance of 570 miles (920 kilometers). This image was the last to contain a complete view of both asteroids. Didymos is roughly 2,500 feet (780 meters) in diameter; Dimorphos is about 525 feet (160 meters) in length. Didymos' and Dimorphos' north is toward the top of the image.
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Public domain
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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/dart-s-final-images-prior-to-impact (image link); original upload from https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Gallery/ (image link)
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