101955 Bennu by Roland Kuit published on 2016-06-03T17:22:59Z #WeTheExplorers - the OSIRIS-REx NASA Mission on September 8, 2016 This sound research music is sent to space by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) integrated in the OSIRIS-REx Mission on September 8, 2016. MISSION TO BENNU The first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth, addressing multiple NASA Solar System Exploration objectives. THE MISSION: The OSIRIS-REx Mission seeks answers to questions that are central to the human experience: Where did we come from? What is our destiny? OSIRIS-REx is going to Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid that records the earliest history of our Solar System, and will be bringing a piece of it back to Earth. Bennu may contain the molecular precursors to the origin of life and the Earth’s oceans. Bennu is also one of the most potentially hazardous asteroids and has a relatively high probability of impacting the Earth late in the 22nd century. OSIRIS-REx will determine Bennu’s physical and chemical properties, which will be critical for future scientists to know when developing an impact mitigation mission. OSIRIS-REx is launched in September and travels to the asteroid Bennu. The #WeTheExplorers campaign invited the public to take part in this mission by expressing, through art, how the mission’s spirit of exploration is reflected in their own lives. Submitted works of art will be saved on a chip on the spacecraft. NASA is hoping to find the origins of this universe in these molecules. The OSIRIS-REx will take the sample and send it to Earth in 2021. The chip containing art will stay on the probe. On this chip works of sound art and sound research of the composer-sonologist Roland Kuit. The OSIRIS-REx will stay in space as a time & art capsule. IN REMEMBRANCE OF MICHAEL J. DRAKE I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the NASA for the extraordinary effort to be a vessel of culture and making this possible. This is a very special honour - Roland Kuit Roland Kuit: Kyma Karin Schomaker: Cover art Thanks to NASA for NASA and OSIRIS-REx logo Atlas V sound by NASA. Processed by Roland Kuit This is a non-commercial album as free download here on SC. Download on request Genre Electronic
