And we watched it all, in near real time -- at under 40 seconds after it transpired, out there in the blackness -- just allowing for speed of light transmission, and three more seconds to render the images, each.
Here it is -- a complete success. That is actual DART onboard cam footage, below, BTW. We will have to wait a day or two to see how much it perturbed the orbit of Dimorphos (via ground based and space based telescopes), though:
This is an amazing evening, for humanity: the first time any human made object has moved the orbit of a celestial body of size. Whoosh -- grinning.
नमस्ते
