NASA’s asteroid monitoring system ATLAS has been upgraded, and can now scan the entire night sky in its mission to detect and warn of incoming space rocks.
- The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), which is based at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), has been operational since 2017.
- As per NASA, an asteroid that hits the Earth can come at any time from any direction, so ATLAS is now all the sky, all the time.
- The four-telescope ATLAS system is now the first survey for hazardous asteroids capable of monitoring the entire dark sky every 24 hours.
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