a NASA spacecraft will move towards an asteroid, take samples, and, sending it to the earth. This is expressed by the United States space agency (USA) is on Thursday (26 / 5).
Unmanned aircraft will not land on the asteroid but it will only fly close to the surface of the asteroid and issued a robotic hand to take 2.27 pounds of dust and other organic material. The samples will then be stored in a capsule for the trip home.
Asteroids seen as a remnant from the formation of the solar system at 4.5 billion years ago. Studying these samples is expected to provide information about how life arose in the solar system.
The mission of U.S. $ 1 billion (around Rp 8, 6 trillion) is planned to be held in 2016 and will take four years to reach the asteroid and begin sampling. Sample capsule is expected to arrive on Earth in 2023.
The purpose of this mission is an asteroid named 1999RQ36 based on years of discovery. Because the asteroid is five times the size of a football field is only changed slightly over time so the scientists believe could learn about the solar system.
One of the scientists who took part in the study Michael Drake of the University of Arizona described the asteroid sbagai time capsule containing the life-forming materials.
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