Thursday 2 July 2015

Million-mile journey to an asteroid begins for ASU-built instrument

IRON AND ICE
Million-mile journey to an asteroid begins for ASU-built instrument
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 01, 2015 - A journey that will stretch millions of miles and take years to complete begins with a short trip to a loading dock. The OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES for short) is the first space instrument built entirely on the Arizona State University campus. It forms a key part of a NASA mission to collect a sample from a primitive asteroid and return the sample to Earth. About the si ... more


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