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Next month Nasa will launch a spacecraft on its journey towards an asteroid, where it will collect and return samples that experts believe may hold the building blocks of life.
Nasa's OSRIS-REx spacecraft will travel for two years to reach Bennu, and plans to return to Earth in 2023.
Fitted with sensors, the craft will map out the surface of the asteroid in order to address basic questions about the composition of the very early solar system.
The 4,650-pound (2,110-kilogram) fully-fueled spacecraft will launch aboard an Atlas V 411 rocket during a 34-day launch period that begins on 8 September.
It will reach its asteroid target in 2018.
Bennu is one of more than 700,000 asteroids traveling through our solar system at the moment and was chosen as the target for this mission because it is the closest carbonaceous asteroid.
After a careful survey of Bennu to characterize the asteroid and locate the most promising sample sites, OSIRIS-REx will collect between 2 and 70 ounces (about 60 to 2,000 grams) of surface material with its robotic arm and return the sample to Earth via a detachable capsule in 2023.
To capture samples on the surface, the craft will hover over a specific area and 'will be sent down at a very slow and gently' 4 inches (10 cm) per second.
It will only be in contact with the surface for five seconds as it vacuums up the targeted area.
The OVIRIS, which is short for the OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer, will be used to measure visible and near-infrared light reflected and emitted from the asteroid and split the light into its component wavelengths– similar to how a prism splits light to into a rainbow.
'OVIRS is key to our search for organics on Bennu,' said Dante Lauretta, principal investigator for the OSIRIS-REx mission at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
'In particular, we will rely on it to find the areas of Bennu rich in organic molecules to identify possible sample sites of high science value, as well as the asteroid's general composition.'
The cutting edge spectrometer will work alongside the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES), which will pick up the thermal infrared while OVIRS maps the asteroid.
As the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approaches Bennu, OVIRS will view one entire hemisphere at a time to measure how the spectrum changes as the asteroid rotates, allowing scientists to compare ground-based observations to those from the spacecraft.
Once at the asteroid, OVIRS will gather spectral data and create detailed maps of the surface and help in the selection of a sample site.
http://www.asteroidmission.org/
Nasa's OSRIS-REx spacecraft will travel for two years to reach Bennu, and plans to return to Earth in 2023.
Fitted with sensors, the craft will map out the surface of the asteroid in order to address basic questions about the composition of the very early solar system.
The 4,650-pound (2,110-kilogram) fully-fueled spacecraft will launch aboard an Atlas V 411 rocket during a 34-day launch period that begins on 8 September.
It will reach its asteroid target in 2018.
Bennu is one of more than 700,000 asteroids traveling through our solar system at the moment and was chosen as the target for this mission because it is the closest carbonaceous asteroid.
After a careful survey of Bennu to characterize the asteroid and locate the most promising sample sites, OSIRIS-REx will collect between 2 and 70 ounces (about 60 to 2,000 grams) of surface material with its robotic arm and return the sample to Earth via a detachable capsule in 2023.
To capture samples on the surface, the craft will hover over a specific area and 'will be sent down at a very slow and gently' 4 inches (10 cm) per second.
It will only be in contact with the surface for five seconds as it vacuums up the targeted area.
The OVIRIS, which is short for the OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer, will be used to measure visible and near-infrared light reflected and emitted from the asteroid and split the light into its component wavelengths– similar to how a prism splits light to into a rainbow.
'OVIRS is key to our search for organics on Bennu,' said Dante Lauretta, principal investigator for the OSIRIS-REx mission at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
'In particular, we will rely on it to find the areas of Bennu rich in organic molecules to identify possible sample sites of high science value, as well as the asteroid's general composition.'
The cutting edge spectrometer will work alongside the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES), which will pick up the thermal infrared while OVIRS maps the asteroid.
As the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approaches Bennu, OVIRS will view one entire hemisphere at a time to measure how the spectrum changes as the asteroid rotates, allowing scientists to compare ground-based observations to those from the spacecraft.
Once at the asteroid, OVIRS will gather spectral data and create detailed maps of the surface and help in the selection of a sample site.
http://www.asteroidmission.org/
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