Asteroid approach, Science operations begin! |
Asteroid approach, Science operations begin! |
Aug 24 2018, 06:48 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
NASA update on the OSIRIS-REx mission, includes first picture of the asteroid from the spacecraft.
Begins Operations |
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Dec 4 2018, 02:33 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 40 Joined: 28-July 07 Member No.: 2984 |
The animation makes it look like boulders should be flying off of it left and right.
It'd be interesting to run a "Project Crowbar" to lever off one of the bigger boulders and drag/toss it into orbit for a full grapple and analysis. |
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