[HTML][HTML] Successful kinetic impact into an asteroid for planetary defence

RT Daly, CM Ernst, OS Barnouin, NL Chabot, AS Rivkin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Although no known asteroid poses a threat to Earth for at least the next century, the
catalogue of near-Earth asteroids is incomplete for objects whose impacts would produce …

Spacecraft sample collection and subsurface excavation of asteroid (101955) Bennu

DS Lauretta, CD Adam, AJ Allen, RL Ballouz… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Carbonaceous asteroids, such as (101955) Bennu, preserve material from the early Solar
System, including volatile compounds and organic molecules. We report spacecraft imaging …

OSIRIS-APEX: an OSIRIS-REx extended mission to asteroid apophis

DN DellaGiustina, MC Nolan, AT Polit… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith
Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft mission characterized and collected a sample from …

The geology and evolution of the Near-Earth binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos

O Barnouin, RL Ballouz, S Marchi, JB Vincent… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Images collected during NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission provide
the first resolved views of the Didymos binary asteroid system. These images reveal that the …

Assessing the sampleability of Bennu's surface for the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission

KJ Walsh, EB Bierhaus, DS Lauretta, MC Nolan… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, collected a sample from the
surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and will deliver it to Earth in …

Stereophotoclinometry on the OSIRIS-REx Mission: Mathematics and methods

RW Gaskell, OS Barnouin, MG Daly… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Stereophotoclinometry (SPC) makes it possible to extract the shapes of surfaces by
combining information from images, namely stereo parallax data and surface shading from …

High-resolution shape models of Phobos and Deimos from stereophotoclinometry

CM Ernst, RT Daly, RW Gaskell, OS Barnouin… - Earth, Planets and …, 2023 - Springer
We created high-resolution shape models of Phobos and Deimos using
stereophotoclinometry and united images from Viking Orbiter, Phobos 2, Mars Global …

Quality assessment of stereophotoclinometry as a shape modeling method using a synthetic asteroid

J Weirich, EE Palmer, MG Daly… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The stereophotoclinometry (SPC) software suite has been used to generate global digital
terrain models (DTMs) of many asteroids and moons, and was the primary tool used by the …

Building a high-resolution digital terrain model of Bennu from laser altimetry data

JA Seabrook, MG Daly, OS Barnouin… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith
Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft orbited the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu to …

Practical stereophotoclinometry for modeling shape and topography on planetary missions

EE Palmer, R Gaskell, MG Daly… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Stereophotoclinometry (SPC) is a technique to extract topographic information from images
acquired by spacecraft. It combines stereophotogrammetry and photoclinometry to produce …