Saturday, April 18, 2020

NASA's Asteroid Mission

Dante Lauretta has been working on the OSIRIS REx mission for the better part of 2 decades, all the way from the early proposal, through the design of mission, target selection and the experimentation with the sample acquisition process. Even after launch there are new problems they've had to solve to support the plan of returning a substantial sample of a primitive asteroid and return it to Earth.


Most of the asteroid images in this video are from the mission website: https://www.asteroidmission.org/

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