Tech giant Google took it upon itself to launch its own type of celebration following NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully crashed into an asteroid on Monday evening.
If you Google “NASA DART” or “NASA DART mission” it will trigger an animation featuring a spacecraft hitting the “News” tab and knocking your search results off-kilter.
The search gimmick reflects NASA’s actual mission to knock the asteroid Dimorphos slightly off course as it orbits another asteroid.
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