NASA Provides Live Coverage of Spacecraft Arrival at Asteroid This Morning

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NASA Provides Live Coverage of Spacecraft Arrival at Asteroid This Morning

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with its targeted asteroid, Bennu, on Monday, Dec. 3 at approximately noon EST. NASA will air a live event from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. EST to highlight the arrival of the agency’s first asteroid sample return mission. The program will […]

Rosetta’s First Peek at the Comet’s Dark Side

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Rosetta’s First Peek at the Comet’s Dark Side

Since its arrival at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been surveying the surface and the environment of this curiously shaped body. But for a long time, a portion of the nucleus — the dark, cold regions around the comet’s south pole — remained inaccessible to almost all instruments on the spacecraft. […]