Google celebrates NASA's DART mission with a new search gimmick

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Google’s new animation shows a spacecraft knocking your screen off-kilter. Screenshot by NPR

Screenshot by NPR

Tech giant Google took it upon itself to launch its own type of celebration following NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully crashing into an asteroid on Monday evening.

If you Google “NASA DART” or “NASA DART mission” it will trigger an animation featuring a spacecraft hitting the “News” tab and knocking your search results off-kilter.

The search

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