by APOD Robot » Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:08 am
An Atlas V Rocket Launches OSIRIS-REx
Explanation: Have you ever seen a rocket launched into the Solar System? Last month a large
Atlas V rocket
blasted off from
Launch Complex 41 in
Florida carrying the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. This robotic spacecraft will attempt to land on
Asteroid Bennu and return some of its soil to Earth. Asteroid
101955 Bennu orbits the Sun near the Earth, spans about 500-meters, is
dark because its surface is covered with carbon, and has about a 1 in 2500 chance of
striking the Earth in the next few thousand years. The
exciting 2.5-minute video shows the Atlas V rocket being
rolled out, prepared, and launched -- complete with a clip of side-boosters separating. If things go according to plan,
OSIRIS-REx will reach Bennu in 2018 and return samples to Earth in 2023. One science goal of
OSIRIS-REx is to better determine whether ancient collisions between Earth and
carbonaceous asteroids like
Bennu provided Earth with a significant amount of the
water and
organic molecules necessary for the
development of life.
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