{"id":72279,"date":"2016-04-28T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=72279"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:36:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T16:36:27","slug":"ucf-nasa-party-social-media-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-nasa-party-social-media-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½, NASA to Party on Social Media Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ has been invited to an exclusive party with NASA and you\u2019re invited to follow along via Twitter on Friday, April 29.<\/p>\n
NASA is in its final preparation stages of the OSIRIS-REx mission, which is expected to launch in September from the Kennedy Space Center. On Friday, 25 social media managers from across the nation are getting a first look at the spacecraft that will go to an asteroid, tap its surface and collect a sample of alien material before bringing it back home to Earth. It\u2019s the first time America is attempting this kind of mission.<\/p>\n
Two Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ professors are part of the mission\u2019s imaging team. Pegasus Professor Humberto Campins and associate professor Yan Fernandez will help obtain and analyze maps of the surface of asteroid Bennu using the spacecraft\u2019s onboard cameras. The University of Arizona is the lead institution and has assembled a team of national experts to assist. The maps will provide information about the topography and the physical and chemical characteristics of the surface of Bennu. This will help select the “TAG” (Touch and Go) site for sampling, and will also provide interesting scientific results about Bennu and other related asteroids.<\/p>\n