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Planetary Demolition Derby Artist Concept
From the collection of NASA Image and Video Library. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This artist concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the size of Mercury. NASA Spitzer found evidence that a high-speed collision of this sort occurred a few thousand years ago around a young star.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePlanetary Demolition Derby Artist Concept. NASA/JPL, 2009-08-10. Public domain. ID: PIA12166.
