Playing Tag With an Asteroid
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- Visualizations by:
- Chris Meaney
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What’s the best way get a sample of an asteroid? Play tag with it! That’s the plan for OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft that will approach the asteroid Bennu in 2018. The collection will be done with an instrument on board called the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or, TAGSAM. Learn how it works in this video.
"Playing Tag With an Asteroid" is a video demonstrating how OSIRIS-REx will use it's TAGSAM instrument to get a sample of the asteroid Bennu.
For complete transcript, click here.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Chris Meaney (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
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Video editor
- David Ladd (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Producer
- David Ladd (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
Playing Tag With An Asteroid
(ID: 2014003)
Monday, February 3, 2014 at 5:00AM
Produced by - Marit Jentoft-Nilsen
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