Asteroid approach, Science operations begin! |
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NASA update on the OSIRIS-REx mission, includes first picture of the asteroid from the spacecraft.
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This revolutionizes a bit how I imagined the surface of asteroids forever and how we all imagined it, I think. It does not seem something anomalous or alien but something very common, any valley of terrestrial stones that is often found in the high mountains. I am trying to imagine the men in scale in these photos, exploring among those numerous rocks and I realize that there are so many that it would be difficult to walk there. So many "common" rocks let me think of the remains a part of an already existing and exploded world rather than an agglomeration formed with millions and millions of years. I probably can't conceive.
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