Upscaled and enhanced version:
NASA's first flight mission for planetary defense, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat. The DART mission aims to shift an asteroid's orbit through kinetic impact – specifically, by smashing a spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary asteroid system Didymos.
00:00 - 00:48 - Final approach to the asteroid filmed from the probe itself.
00:48 - 01:02 - Impact into the asteroid filmed from the Atlas Telescope in South Africa.
Source: Nasa/The ATLAS Project.
Music: Fantasia, Vaughan Williams.
Not a XIXth Century video, sorry for the offtopic.
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