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Asteroid approach, Science operations begin! |
Aug 24 2018, 06:48 PM
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NASA update on the OSIRIS-REx mission, includes first picture of the asteroid from the spacecraft.
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Apr 14 2019, 09:03 AM
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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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Apr 16 2019, 01:29 AM
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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. [] "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." In the case of Ryugu, according to this article in Science, one of the models of its origin assumes that it (or rather its parent body) was broken into pieces by catastrophic impact and reaccumulated, at least a couple of times! Maybe the same applies to Bennu (?) |
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