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31/ATLAS Tracker: See the Comet
Earth Shield to Be Tested December 29 Advanced Planetary Defenses
NASA is currently developing the world’s first Earth Shield, a multilayer defense system combining:
- Telescopes
- Radar arrays
- Orbital satellites
- Machine learning–driven threat detection
- A proposed automatic DART-style deflection system
NASA and foreign partners including ESA and JAXA will run the next major test on December 29 as 31/ATLAS continues on its outbound trajectory.
31/ATLAS was first spotted on July 1 by the ATLAS telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. Since then, observatories in Japan, Spain, and Chile have captured rare images revealing its cone-shaped, green-hued structure.
