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DART prelaunch

Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls

This third-place photo in the Places category shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft on top. NASA photographer Bill Ingalls captured the photo on the morning of November 23, 2021, at Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The DART probe is currently en route to Dimorphos, where it will deliberately crash into the asteroid as part of a redirection test.

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