This image captured on Dec. 19, 2018, by a camera on the Osiris-Rex spacecraft shows the asteroid Bennu, top right, about 27 miles (43 kilometers) from the spacecraft, and the Earth and moon, bottom left, more than 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away. Bennu, just 1,600 feet (500 meters) across, is the smallest celestial body ever to be orbited by a spacecraft. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Space via AP)Detail: Earth and moon in the same photo
Blows me away, seeing both Earth and moon in one photo like this. I’ve seen the shots where Earth is just a tiny dot, but in those you can’t see the moon at all.
Almost too much to grasp having our world plus our moon show in a real photo of a waaaaay distant body we could never see ourselves, and that we look like stars– heavenly bodies, not rock stars 😉 Wow!
Not to mention the feat of putting a satellite into orbit around a tiny asteroid. That’s amazing enough in itself. (It took 2 years to get there!) It shows how smart we are when we try … and how really insignificant we are in the Big Picture. I still can’t truly comprehend the vastness of the universe.
I was just reading about it, the mission, etc. The spacecraft is actually going to bring back samples from Bennu’s surface. Have yet to read how it’s going to get those samples.
(Note: The article you referenced explains how the samples will be gathered.)
Oh, of course. Well, it’s getting late and something just wasn’t clicking.
12.29am by my reckoning
You don’t need to reckon. It’s right there under my name.
it says 4 minutes my clock shows Colorado as 1.11 am today
My bad. WP changes those time stamps to whatever local time you’ve set, if you’ve set it at all.
I have clocks set up for various p[laces around the globe so I can see if those that I follow are abed or awake. Sort of godlike watching over my flock 👿
wow, this is so cool –
Blows me away, seeing both Earth and moon in one photo like this. I’ve seen the shots where Earth is just a tiny dot, but in those you can’t see the moon at all.
Yes, it’s so hard to take in
Almost too much to grasp having our world plus our moon show in a real photo of a waaaaay distant body we could never see ourselves, and that we look like stars– heavenly bodies, not rock stars 😉 Wow!
Not to mention the feat of putting a satellite into orbit around a tiny asteroid. That’s amazing enough in itself. (It took 2 years to get there!) It shows how smart we are when we try … and how really insignificant we are in the Big Picture. I still can’t truly comprehend the vastness of the universe.
You can see the asteroid in this photo.
https://www.voanews.com/a/nasa-spacecraft-arrives-at-ancient-asteroid-its-1st-visitor/4685646.html
I was just reading about it, the mission, etc. The spacecraft is actually going to bring back samples from Bennu’s surface. Have yet to read how it’s going to get those samples.
(Note: The article you referenced explains how the samples will be gathered.)
So COOL!
Hi, stranger! Good to see you. I thought about you when I posted this.
It is very cool, isn’t it. Awesome, amazing, mind-blowing. My vocabulary doesn’t contain appropriate words.
I’ve just been sitting here; mouth wide open in disbelief
We just seem to be sitting there in space, nothing around us, not moving. yet we’re spinning, eternally, at speeds we can not envisage.
Just another couple of dots in this timeless Universe.
And there are 7.5 billion humans on that little dot, carrying on like what they do really matters. Mind boggling.
Not to worry; the HR’s have it worked out and under control
HRs?
Holy rollers
Oh, of course. Well, it’s getting late and something just wasn’t clicking.
12.29am by my reckoning
You don’t need to reckon. It’s right there under my name.
it says 4 minutes my clock shows Colorado as 1.11 am today
My bad. WP changes those time stamps to whatever local time you’ve set, if you’ve set it at all.
I have clocks set up for various p[laces around the globe so I can see if those that I follow are abed or awake. Sort of godlike watching over my flock 👿
Uh oh …