In addition, LUKE is equipped with red-green-blue color filters that can help scientists learn about the moonlet's physical properties.ĭART has its own powerful camera, called DRACO. LUKE, in contrast, has a larger field of view that allows it to follow the plume's full breadth during the whole pass.
It can view the impact scene in black and white with great clarity, according to Cheng. LICIACube's LEIA is a high-resolution imager that can observe details of the impact plume and of the asteroid surface, according to Pirrotta. "The pass distance must be appropriate: not so close to reduce the risk of an impact with ejected materials, but close enough for a good imaging." "The faster and the closer you are, the quicker you have to turn your head," Pirrotta told via email. The cubesat will have to mimic someone in a car on a highway wanting to look at another car stopped on the roadside, according to Simone Pirrotta, LICIACube project manager for the Italian Space Agency (ASI). To catch the special moment, LICIACube will need to be agile and get to a just-right distance from the collision for best viewing. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman) One of the solar panel arrays on the satellite's wings is visible in this image. In this image, DART team engineers lift and inspect the LICIACube cubesat after it arrived at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland in August 2021.
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