OSIRIS-REX mission to 1999 RQ36 (Bennu), New Frontiers Mission to Launch in 2016 |
OSIRIS-REX mission to 1999 RQ36 (Bennu), New Frontiers Mission to Launch in 2016 |
Aug 9 2010, 08:56 PM
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Saw this news article today:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...th-osiris-rq36/ And didn't see a thread on this mission. There was a passing reference or two to it, and a mention here: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...310#entry161310 Of this: http://futureplanets.blogspot.com/search/l...roid%20Proposal Which I guess I missed on vjkane's blog. |
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Oct 11 2017, 05:34 AM
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Earth anf Moon in color
http://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-new...arth-moon-color |
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Jan 30 2018, 10:12 PM
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Earth anf Moon in color http://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-new...arth-moon-color Late reply, but fantastic image. reminds me of Carl Sagan's famous 'pale blue dot' quote: “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam" I'm seriously missing Cassini-Huygens, but starting to get excited about this mission now - I wonder what Bennu will be like? Itokawa-esque? Similar to Eros? Mathilde? Gaspra? Hoping that there's a suitable place to take a sample without hazardous terrain - an area of 'ponding' perhaps, that's free of large boulders or gravel that's too large for the sample-arm to capture. Only seven months away now.... |
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