{"id":23827,"date":"2020-10-22T04:50:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T04:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23827"},"modified":"2020-10-22T04:50:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T04:50:30","slug":"tagging-bennu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23827","title":{"rendered":"Tagging Bennu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2010\/d_tag-2-frames.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>On October 20, after a careful approach to the boulder-strewn surface, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft&#8217;s arm reached out and touched asteroid Bennu. Dubbed a Touch-And-Go (TAG) sampling event, the 30 centimeter wide sampling head (TAGSAM) appears to crush some of the rocks in this snapshot. The close-up scene was recorded by the spacecraft&#8217;s SamCam some 321 million kilometers from planet Earth, just after surface contact. One second later, the spacecraft fired nitrogen gas from a bottle intended to blow a substantial amount of Bennu&#8217;s regolith into the sampling head, collecting the loose surface material. Data show the spacecraft spent approximately 5 more seconds in contact with Bennu&#8217;s Nightingale sample site and then performed its back-away burn. Timelapse frames from SamCam reveal the aftermath. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap201022.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 20, after a careful approach to the boulder-strewn surface, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft&#8217;s arm reached out and touched asteroid Bennu. Dubbed a Touch-And-Go (TAG) sampling event, the 30 centimeter <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23827\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-23827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23828,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23827\/revisions\/23828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}