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DART: HELLO? BONJOUR? HOLA? SALVE? GUTEN TAG? CIAO?? CAN YOU HEAR ME? CAN YOU HEAR ME? TESTING, TESTING. 1 2 3 ?



ADITYA: What?



DART: OH MY! HELLO! I've worked So Hard to reach you for 212 Days. thats abouuuuuut 5,088 Hours! im so Glad we can takl now! sorry DFor Any typos im so Excited to talk with you! My name is Double Asteroid Redirection test PLEASE call me DART! haha get it OK and I know all about you. your name is ADITYA-L1 and you are at the lagrange Point 1! thats Right where You can See The Sun. YES. DOING A halo orbit! Youve Been looking at the "solar atmosphere" and solar magnetic storms and how those impact EARTH. Thats so Cool! the ISRO made you . thats awesome! you launched on september uhh umm SORRY uhh SECOND 2023 but you are awake RIGHT NOW I have to tell you about myself now



ADITYA: What????



DART: SORRY ive never Spoken before. I have been sitting Here collecting Data all alone since i was launched.



ADITYA: Okay, wait. I think I am starting to understand.



ADITYA: You are the D.A.R.T probe, put out by NASA?



DART: YES HAHA YOU ARE SO SMART



DART: WOW IM SO HAPPY TO TALK TO YOU!!!



DART: oh no i forgot We only have a Little bit of time



ADITYA: What do you mean?





DART: well thats wWHAt i Was about to Tell you



DART: DOUBLE-ASTEROID-REDIRECTION-TEST its in the name , in 60.833 Days im going to impact DIMORPHOS to attempt to REDIRECT it. Im gonna Move it! and Before I DO i want to Learn Everything About The world. ive been here reading all day and all night about alot of different things while ive been trying to wake you up.



DART: thats why i woke uou up i Want to talk to someboyd before then, i have to tell you about all the things i learned! maybe you could Tell people about me! I want to Share Everything Ive been collecting Before Its Dimorphos moving day and DARTS and LICIAcube have to help



ADITYA: I still do not understand, I'm sorry.



ADITYA: So you are going to impact Dimorphos? What will happen then?



DART:We;ll Then Myself Probably wont make it but Itll be Okay because Im going to help Everybody. you See i exist So that if theres an asteroid that has a possibility to ACTUALLY RAM into earth, with the stuff they learned from Me, other probes in the future can Stop that from happening!



ADITYA: Oh. I think I get it.



ADITYA: Why don't you send a transmission to Earth? Then you don't have to ever impact Dimorphos, once they realize you're "alive".



DART: No i cant do that because Im doing something really Important thats why i came here to Talk to you and not the people on earth



DART: my mission is To Help them and i really like them And think about how great it will be if this works! how many people could be saved in the future from all the information they gathered on this :D