Send your messages to Space
NASA is inviting people all around the globe to submit short messages and images on social networking sites that could be placed in a time capsule aboard in a spacecraft which will be launched to an asteroid in 2016.
If you have any prediction about future state of space exploration within you or you have any guesses how our future will be of space access after two decades then NASA would like to hear from you.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is asking people to contribute by sending messages and pictures to a tie capsule aboard the ‘Origins Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer’ (Osiris- Rex) spacecraft which will be launched to space in 2016 and will return to earth in 2024 after collecting samples from an asteroid ‘Bennu’.
The spacecraft will spend more than two years at the 1,760-foot-wide asteroid and return a minimum of 60 g of its surface material.
When capsule would return to Earth in 2023 with the material collected from ‘Bennu’, the mission team will open the time capsule to view the messages and images.
The OSIRIS-Rex mission is focused on finding answers to basic questions about the composition of the very early solar system and the source of organic materials and water that made life possible on Earth.
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Researching asteroid will flash light on the issues related to early solar system and would help the researchers to know how earth came to possess the raw materials which is necessary for the life.
The purpose for the mission are two ways. Firstly, Bennu has been identified as a potential Earth impact; by conducting a close survey of the asteroid, including its exact shape and acceleration, and composition, NASA researchers will better be able to predict the likelihood of such an event.
Secondly, NASA hopes to study the composition of the asteroid formed from the leftover dust and gas of the nebula that collapsed to form the sun as a means of studying the conditions of the formation of the solar system.
You may submit your messages under topic related to solar system exploration and prediction for space in 2023. Submission dates are open till September 30, 2014. For further information and guidelines for submission you can visit their official website Asteroid Time Capsule. The best 50 tweets and best 5o images will be placed in the capsule along with the names of space enthusiasts on the mission.
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