Asteroid approach, Science operations begin! |
Asteroid approach, Science operations begin! |
Aug 24 2018, 06:48 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 544 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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Oct 12 2020, 07:10 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
"I dream that one day Phil will make a complete atlas of small, non-spherical bodies of the Solar System (asteroids, comets, small moons) photographed so far by space probes"
If people would stop doing things on the Moon and Mars I might have time for that. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Oct 12 2020, 08:09 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 437 Joined: 14-December 15 Member No.: 7860 |
"I dream that one day Phil will make a complete atlas of small, non-spherical bodies of the Solar System (asteroids, comets, small moons) photographed so far by space probes" If people would stop doing things on the Moon and Mars I might have time for that. Phil Well, then we will have to wait a long time - unfortunately (the hope is that some great solar storm will damage all probes on Mars and the Moon at once ) |
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