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The OSIRIS REx mission has been scrutinizing the asteroid Bennu looking for site where they can take a sample, but the asteroid surface proved to be more rough rocky than they originally expected. So the target sites were 1/6th of the size they originally expected to work with, which means the navigation will have to be more accurate to get the sample without risking the spacecraft.
Meanwhile elsewhere the Japanese Hayabusa 2 mission is heading home with its much smaller samples, we got to find out some more about Hayabusa’s results at last week’s American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
Here’s the press event announcing the OSIRIS REx site selection from the AGU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768g-XTfbc8
The AGU Session with the Hayabusa video has been made available again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=642vdp-q3lM
All Bennu needs is a Baobab tree…
We need to start mining these
Don’t wake the Borg.🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖
Doesnt’t look anything like KSP
I wonder when we’ll attempt an asteroid capture and redirect back to Earth
Great show ! Very interesting ! Please keep us updated 😘🚀⭐️
Osprey looks very much like impact craters, any risk of glaced surface?
Team Osprey!!!
We want new ideas on rocket engine design
l got one word for all of this…WOW…Thanks Scott…!
If a person jumped on bennu, would they reach escape velocity?
Super informative, cool footage
Watching the video while it’s rotating around the landing site, if you look away from the video your entire vision is distorted in a rotating pattern. I feel a bit drunk xD
Space rocks, yes it does.
Hi Scott its me lewis cavanagh
I saw Fraser watching one of your videos.
who knew? so interesting, and so well covered! I am puzzled though why the two asteroids you mention are so similar in shape. Clearly they don’t have enough gravitational force to become spherical, but what’s responsible for the bulges and common appearance? Thanks, great vid.
Could you please do a detailed new video on Hayabusa 2 please?
Soup dragon might light the fires to move the asteroid.
Anyone else get unsubbed? Great video on some truly next level exploration
Watch we do a mission that changes to orbit of an asteroid and the damn thing slams into tje earth 30 years later
“Sandpiper”
brilliant!
OK, remember where we parked the probe, everyone.
I took a little trip out to an asteroid,
I tried to cop a feel in the dark,
The Space Police cars made me feel paranoid,
But I stole a bag of dream dust from their park.
Scott! How tiny should be an asteroid so a human being could jump to escape velocity?
lol Mt Doom (only a couple meters high)
Never tell them the odds
Oh baby 1mil subs is just around the corner, everyone loves a round number!
I’m wondering if the landing thrusters will blow away the target dust they hope to sample? Surely what remains will be a selection of heavier materials present.
Ah nice, after watching Astrum’s video also on the topic, I think they complement each other.
That’s an old impact crater, eroded somewhat
It’s a space-hoover!!!
Those 3D reconstructions of the surface are AMAZING! (bearing in mind, I grew up in the Venera/Viking era)… but what would have been really cool would be the addition of a cardboard-cut-out astronaut… just to give us an idea of how small Mount Doom actually is.
Just squirt a bunch of foam under the lander for a soft landing. You can donate my noble prize to battersea dogs home.
If you think it’s hard to choose a parking spot on an asteroid, try picking one out on a meteoroid!
Bennu always reminds me of a charcoal briquette!
Thanks Scott! May The Algorithm be good to you$
Well done JAXA , that was a lot of robots doing a lot of diferent things. great work
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Thank God! The good intro!
As always, amazing video. Thank you, Scott.
It’s amazing at my age (?) to get to 1:58 and almost take those shots for granted. There was NOTHING like this when I was a teenager. It is so wonderful to have the privilege to see this.
WOW, Awesome. Thank so much dear Scott.
The returned asteroid samples are exciting. I keep letting myself dream they might find something really special
What if these locations were collisions between bennu and other objects so they end up with a modified sample of the original composition of bennu?
Finding a asteroid that conforms is a tall order
It is truly amazing what we will go thru to look at some “dirt”. Baby-steps !
i wonder how they are gonna navigate around those cars on the sample site..
does the spacecraft have a little note with their phone number in case it hits one of the cars?
More like Mt Boom!
This video worked for me like some optical illusion moving image. After looking at landing site in circling camera manner, made my vision distorted after looking away eg. on comment section.
Scott “controller of minds” Manley
First time I’m actually early
I hope that OSIRIS doesn’t get wrecked!
Scott: Are there any proposed systems being developed to deflect asteroids that we may find to be on a collision course with Earth?
I’m safe, are you safe? I hope we are all safe.✌️
Been waiting for far to long for 1mil! Let’s go! Thank you for all the years you have given us!!!!!
Meanwhile in my language *Kannada* , literally bennu means “Back”.
I feel like part of the team
I think they’ll make it as long as the weather is good.
That dude from Armageddon is still on it
Oh I missed that intro
because the camera was revolving around the site, and i was staring at it, i’m now left with staring at my other screen and everything is spinning, big visual illusion impact
Is this an actual scanned image or just an animation?
Awesome! Hope I’m still around when we start redirecting them to more suitable locations for study and mining ; )
Scott! I’ve been watching Star Wars getting ready for the new one and have a space question.
When tie fighters or x wings buzzed past the command deck in space, would it still rattle the windows in real life, like it does in the movies?????
To look upon something that none of our ancestors have ever imagined is very beautiful.
I watched this launch from the Titusville Bridge. ;P
1:08 to 2:11 wow if you stare at one of the rotating images then look at the centre image, it’s like free drugs. 😆
I have no idea why but this is my favorite asteroid
This imaging is stunning. I’d love to see somthing like this around the moon to image the flag that’d prove the IDIOTS wrong.
The sample grabber looks like the space-vacuum-cleaner from Spaceballs – dust-bag included :’D
Where can I find this amazing 3D visualisation of the astroid? That looks so stunning!
Some of those landing sites look like craters. Have the scientists taken into account that there could be very firm ground just inches below the surface? And if they have I’m curious what action if any was taken to deal with that.
1 mil subs before 2020 ?))))
The resolution of that imaging is incredible. Thanks for this video.
I want a space asteroid mission to Scott’s asteroid
this is the content that I’m here for 😄
The footage at 9.10 is just amazing. This is how smart we are and I love it.
This is so goddamned cool. Imagine being on the team that had to select a touchdown site, calculate how to put down in such a small space. Amazing.
And I thought I had enough problems looking for a good site to land my base on Ike. 😜
I’m excited for you hitting 1 million. You deserve it.
I love how both asteroids look like 10 sided dice! D&D nostalgia
You overspec your probes knowing that the objects are usually underspeced…
They better be careful. That is actually an abandoned Borg Cube that has collected debris over the centuries.
When you say “fly safe” that sounds like a mobster is threatening me. LOL.
I like how these sites actually look like small impact craters themselves.
I mapped 4 images (not so much) and it was excruciating and satisfying at the same time.
Really exited to see how it turned out
Message of the video:
Always overbuild your spacecraft, after all you might need it.
“Oh lord Scott Manley”‘ love it
I guess we already learned something about asteroids: they conform much less with the specs than we thought 😄
In this video we get a glimpse into the contents and process of future space family road trips. Imagine trying to convince your wife that landing in a rockier spot is worth the risk of damaging the landing legs, all the while your two kids scream about gathering space rocks for their space scout badges.
4:55 So the reflecting narrow rock on Osprey is called Minas Tirith?
Great show as always Scott! I was also cheering when you mentioned the role of CosmoQuest in this space mission! Indeed, CosmoQuest is an amazing organization, that focuses on “regular people” volunteering for “Citizen Science” to help NASA and astrophysicists with various projects. So ya… essentially, what CosmoQuest volunteers did for this mission is crunch through a HUGE WHACK of imagery data sent back by the OSIRIS REx probe around Bennu. Pooling all their efforts and volunteer time, they were able to identify the ideal landing-spot for NASA, after 90 days of work.
Interestingly: it was actually estimated that it would likely have taken the team upwards of 1 year to find that ideal landing spot, due to the shear amount and volume of data they had to go through, with the number of volunteers they had working on this.
BUT… the astrophysicists Dr. Pamela Gay, was able to push the team a bit, and reorganize things, so that the team actually got it done in an astonishing 90 days, instead of 365 days, which is a HUGE accomplishment. So thank you regular people: you’ve guided the next state of this NASA mission with hard work, and volunteered time!
Also on a SIDE NOTE: Dr. Pamela Gay actually has a really long running and amazing show you can watch on youtube, called Astronomy Cast, that she does with Fraser Cain. I think they’ve been doing that show since 2006 if I remember correctly–one of the first audio only podcasts on the Internet. Anyways, I’ve been following them since 2006, so that’s why I cheered when you mentioned CosmoQuests vital role in this NASA mission!
* takes single step * yay! I’m in orbit 😃
A good title for the media: “Asteroid Bennu to skim past Earth at a distance of only 15,000,000 km in year 2175!”
I think the general public totally underestimates how amazing these types of missions are….. We’re catching up to asteroids, orbiting them, getting amazing photos, landing on them, running tests, getting samples, then returning home…. Either im just overly impressed by this or everyone else has their heads burried in the sand.
I remember when Armageddon came out and i was like “hah, catching up to and landing on an asteroid? So Hollywood… That’s gotta be nearly impossible”… But i clearly underestimated NASA and these awesome engineers…. and Bruce Willis
Hello. He’s Scott “One Million Subs” Manley. And he deserves each one, and then some.
Congrats Scott! ☻
6:28 I see they let some parking spots open in case Elon’s Roadster shows up.
At 9:10, damn that sampling so awesome. The way it retreats reminds me of every failed grabbing attempt in KSP of an asteroid.
Scott “it’s entirely possible” Manley
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Oh its Lord Scott Manley here
Thank you YouTube.
I quite like the use of the parking lot with a car to show scale. It’s always difficult for me to visualize the scale of these asteroids.
I still love the thought that the American mission sent a vacuum cleaner & the Japanese mission sent a gun. The exact opposite of what the national stereotypes would suggest.