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English: Stacked image of Dimorphos from last images by the DART spacecraft. Copyright is not applicable for this image because NASA's images are in the public domain and the work is not original enough. Plus, it is trivial to just make a new stacked picture if this file is deleted.

The original DART/DRACO images shown in NASA's live stream were mirror-flipped from reality; this version corrects this issue. From DART's perspective, the Sun illumination direction comes from the right, shining down on Didymos and Dimorphos with an extra portion of their southern hemispheres exposed. (see Figure 2 of Rivkin et al. (2021) for a diagram of the Didymos system with the illumination, orbit, DART impact directions)

Ecliptic north points toward the top left corner of the image. Because the Didymos system rotates retrograde with respect to its heliocentric orbit, the rotational north pole of Didymos and Dimorphos points toward the bottom right corner of the image, opposite to the ecliptic north pole. When this image was taken, Dimorphos's orbital velocity was headed directly toward DART, which itself is moving directly toward Dimorphos for a head-on impact.
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Source https://imgur.com/gallery/kOXnjQn, which uses NASA's imagery. The stacking of public domain images are not original enough to be copyrighted.
Author Eydeet, using DART's satellite imagery by NASA
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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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current06:10, 19 December 2022Thumbnail for version as of 06:10, 19 December 20225,792 × 5,792 (7.14 MB)Nrco0eoriginal resolution
00:43, 18 December 2022Thumbnail for version as of 00:43, 18 December 20221,200 × 1,200 (572 KB)Nrco0eUploaded a work by Eydeet, using DART's satellite imagery by NASA from https://imgur.com/gallery/kOXnjQn, which uses NASA's imagery. The stacking of public domain images are not original enough to be copyrighted. with UploadWizard

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