Earth Return & Sample Science |
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
Now that the 'boop' has been completed (with spectacular success!), we'll move the discussion to here for subsequent mission events.
![]() -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Image of it open:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-os...steroid-sample/ (I started the thread about this mission proposal in 2010... time flies. And in this case, really, this seems fast.) As for the image... hard for me to tell what I'm looking at, whether the center is raised/depressed/open/closed etc. But I guess it's been 13.5 years so I can wait a bit more. Looks like this with the notorious fasteners removed: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-dim..._fig1_328494748 ... but the 'round metal collar' is still covering the areas where most of the sample was supposed to accumulate? Hard to tell. |
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2518 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 ![]() |
As for the image... hard for me to tell what I'm looking at, whether the center is raised/depressed/open/closed etc. It's raised. Maybe it'll be helpful to review https://www.asteroidmission.org/asteroid-op...ns/tagsam_head/ I think most of the material you're seeing is overflow from the collection area proper. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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