Matt_W
3973
Here’s a livestream showing a simulated view and real-time updates on mission milestones
Amazing (non-simulated) footage:
LOL that wasn’t just a landing on an asteroid
That bot straight up PUT ITS FOOT DOWN
As a founding member of the Asteroid Preservation Society, I’m appalled at the reckless disturbance we’ve caused on this pure and pristine child of Mother Space.
Good thing it didn’t smack it any harder or it could have cracked open the egg and released an ancient one.
RichVR
3981
I’m just annoyed that they keep calling it a ‘landing’. There was no landing. Just a quality bump that got us asteroid material.
That video clip is speeded up. I think it actually made contact for ten seconds or so. Hopefully it sucked up enough asteroid juice this first time so it doesn’t have to go.back.
Tman
3983
Are we talking days / weeks / months / years for all that ejecta to coalesce back onto the surface of the asteroid?
Matt_W
3984
Surface gravity is 60 micro-gs. So it takes about a minute for ejecta to fall back to the surface from the height of 1 meter. Escape velocity at its surface is about 0.2 m/s though so probably a bunch of that ejecta will never settle back down.
Ejected, Inspected, Detected, and Rejected
