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Keywords: NASA-Animation-ARM-opt-220-20150422.gif en The asteroid redirect vehicle demonstrates the gravity tractor planetary defense technique on a hazardous-size asteroid The gravity tractor method leverages the mass of the spacecraft to impart a gravitational force on the asteroid slowly altering the asteroid ™s trajectory The demonstration is conducted after capturing the boulder and is referred to as the enhanced gravity tractor because the additional mass of the boulder enhances the force that can be transmitted to the asteroid it Raffigurazione del trattore gravitazionale per la missione ARM NASA 2015-03-25 https //commons wikimedia org/wiki/File NASA-Animation-ARM-opt-800-20150325 gif NASA other versions Information field Additional information The file is just a scaled version of the source sorry the dynamic scaling of animated GIF doesn't work Please refer to the source file for eventual new versions cc-zero Uploaded with UploadWizard Asteroid Redirect Mission
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