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. 2023 Mar 1;616(7957):443–447. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05810-5

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Fig. 1 — a–d, Each column corresponds to a milestone: Didymos targeted (a), Dimorphos detected (b), Dimorphos targeted (c) and end of manoeuvring (d). Each row shows, from top to bottom, the raw DRACO image at the time of that milestone with circles indicating the two asteroids detected by onboard processing and identified by SMART Nav (yellow dashed circles, Didymos; green solid circles, Dimorphos), a zoom-in of Didymos and a zoom-in of Dimorphos. The SMART Nav system used information in DRACO images to successfully impact Dimorphos. In all images, the north pole of Dimorphos (+Z) is towards the bottom left. Images from left to right: dart_0401915351_36903_01_raw.fits, dart_0401925635_06853_01_raw.fits, dart_0401927052_23729_01_raw.fits and dart_0401929899_33346_01_raw.fits.