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How does light do this?

How does light do this?For example, when astronomers at NASA sent Curiosity to Mars, I recall them saying that the photons of light affect particles soaring through space by hitting them and moving them.I also remember that the photons of light moved the Curiosity rover about 300 meters off course, but astronomers also calculated this and re-adjusted the Curiosity rover to soar about 300 meters to the left to prevent going off course.According to Isaac Newton Force = Mass x VelocityForce = 0 * cForce = 0?How does something with 0 force alter the course of a projectile?

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Light has no rest mass, at the speed of light, it is not at rest.
Light has pressure, the same as if the mass it represenst were traveling at the speed of light. It's very tiny, therefore, but real. Newton had no idea of this because it was a little before his time. His own discoveries were revolutionary enough.

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