roboDroid
Date: March 15, 2016
Medium: digital art
Artwork can be viewed in any direction
Genre: 2D moving images
Technique: [FAME]
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roboDroid is Lin Hsin Hsin's vision of the robotic cameras' capturing the samples of the near Earth Asteriod Bennu -- A Space Mission event organized by NASA OSIRIS-Rex Spacecraft.


Rotating asteroids have a tough time sticking to their orbits. Their surfaces heat up during the day and cool down at night, giving off radiation that can act as a sort of mini-thruster.

This force, called the Yarkovsky effect, can cause rotating asteroids to drift widely over time, is Lin Hsin Hsin's vision on the effects of how sunlight pushes asteriods
The existence of a continuous stream of particles flowing outward from the Sun was first suggested by British astronomer Richard C Carrington.



According to NASA:

OSIRIS-REx contains five instruments to explore Bennu, each of which provides important information for the mission. This suite of instruments is used for remote sensing or scanning the surface of the asteroid. These will map Bennu and establish what makes up the asteroid, including the distribution of elements, minerals and organic material.

roboDroid presents Lin's imaginations of an elegantly simple sampler head with an articulated arm for contacting the surface of Asteroid Bennu for collecting fine-grained material as the sample collector touches down on the asteroid. It is an visualization of TAGSAM sampler head, developed by Lockheed Martin.