Google creates ‘NASA DART’ search engine Easter Egg to celebrate launch of test mission – Daily Mail

Google has created a browser ‘Easter Egg’ of a spacecraft crashing into the web browser when a user searches ‘NASA Dart’, to celebrate the success of the planetary defence test.

The graphic shows a probe shooting across the DART-related search results, before it collides and disappears in a cloud of dust, leaving the page askew.

The demonstration is triggered by the search terms ‘NASA DART’, ‘DART’, ‘DART probe’ or ‘double asteroid redirection test’, the full name of the mission.

NASA tweeted about the Easter Egg earlier today, telling followers: ‘Your Google search could reveal something smashing! Search for “NASA DART” on to see a demonstration of browser, uh, planetary defense.’

Last night, at about 00:14 BST (19:14 ET), the real DART spacecraft successfully struck a 170-metre wide (560ft) asteroid about 6.8 million miles away from Earth.

The $325 million (298 million) mission was a rehearsal of what may be required if a space rock does one day threaten our planet.

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