{"id":3811,"date":"2020-10-15T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2020-10-12T17:18:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T21:18:43","slug":"bennu-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=3811","title":{"rendered":"Bennu Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QunVAWABQSc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASA dicit: <\/p>\n<p>When NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had predicted nearly two decades before: Bennu is made of loose material weakly clumped together by gravity, and shaped like a spinning top. This major validation, however, was accompanied by a major surprise. Scientists had expected Bennu&#8217;s surface to consist of fine-grained material like a sandy beach, but were instead greeted by a rugged world littered with boulders \u2013 the size of cars, the size of houses, the size of football fields. Now, thanks to laser altimetry data and high-resolution imagery from OSIRIS-REx, we can take a tour of Bennu&#8217;s remarkable terrain. <\/p>\n<p>Video credit: NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center\/NASA\/University of Arizona\/CSA\/York University\/MDA\/Dan Gallagher (USRA): Producer\/Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Visualizer\/Jonathan North (USRA): Animator\/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA): Animator\/Dan Gallagher (USRA): Narrator\/Erin Morton (The University of Arizona): Support\/Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Support\/\u201cTimelapse Clouds\u201d by Andy Blythe and Marten Joustra; \u201cThe Wilderness\u201d by Benjamin James Parsons; \u201cMaps of Deception\u201d by Idriss-El-Mehdi Bennani, Olivier Louis Perrot, and Philippe Andre Vandenhende <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bennu is made of loose material weakly clumped together by gravity, and shaped like a spinning top. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1,463],"tags":[633,548],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotic-exploration","category-space-exploration","category-videos","tag-bennu","tag-osiris-rex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}