... used Herschel to look at small bodies that have been or will be visited by spacecraft, including the targets of NASA s previous Deep Impact mission and upcoming Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-Rex ...
... The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer spacecraft, called Osiris-Rex, would rendezvous and orbit a primitive asteroid. ...
... It is known, for example, from photographs showing astronauts on the Moon and occurs typically on highly structured, regolith surfaces when light incidents from the same direction into which it is reflected. ...
... The Moon Regolith Oxygen (MoonROx) competition is part of Centennial Challenges, a NASA program that encourages innovative designs to support the space agency's Vision for Space Exploration and ongoing space missions. ...