A “stare egg” hidden in Google celebrates NASA’s DART mission, which involved sending a satellite to impact an asteroid.

This week, the dart ship NASA, traveling at a speed of 6 kilometers per second, collided with the asteroid Dimorphos intentionally and with the aim of diverting it from its trajectory. It is one of the first planetary defense missionsand his execution was a complete success.

Google, of course, has not wanted to miss the opportunity to celebrate such a milestoneand he has done it his way: through a easter egg hidden in your browser.

NASA has sent a satellite to deflect an asteroid, and Google wanted to celebrate.

Discover the easter egg hidden by Google in its search engine on the occasion of the DART mission

DART refers to “Double Asteroid Redirection Test”, and it is a mission consisting of test if it is possible to deflect an asteroid of its route, in order to avoid a possible risk of collision with the planet Earth.

The mission was a success, since it was possible divert the asteroid Dimorphones from its original orbitdespite not posing any kind of threat to Earth.

On the occasion of the mission, Google has introduced a little secret in its search engine. To the perform a quest related to the missioneither “DART NASA” or “Double Asteroid Redirection Test”, we will see an animation showing a satellite traveling across the screen from left to right. When you reach the edge of the screen, you can see a collisionand the search results become “offset” from their original position.

The easter egg It is visible from both the desktop version of Google and the mobile version of the search engine.

This is not the first time that Google hides secrets of this type in its search engine. The company has been celebrating historical events for years through animations, mini-games or the mythical Doodles.