OSIRIS-REX Slings Orbital Web Around Asteroid to Capture Sample | 4K

101955 Bennu is one of Earth's closest planetary neighbors - an asteroid roughly the height of a skyscraper, and since late 2018, the place that NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has called home. When OSIRIS-REX arrived on Dec. 3, 2018, it began wrapping Bennu in a complex web of observations. OSIRIS-REX departs Bennu on May 10, 2021, on a return voyage to Earth, bringing with it over 60 grams of sample collected from the asteroid. This narrated video presents the mission's complete trajectory during its time at Bennu.Show more

More: https://nasa.gov/osiris-rex

Music: "Visionary" by Andy Blythe and Marten Joustra; "Babel" by Max Cameron Concors, via Universal Production Music

Data provided by: NASA/University of Arizona/ CSA/York University/Open University/MDA

Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio

Dan Gallagher (USRA): Producer

Kel Elkins (USRA): Producer

Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Data Visualizer

Dan Gallagher (USRA): Narrator

Michael Moreau (NASA/GSFC): Deputy Project

Manager

Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona):

Principal Investigator Kenny Getzandanner (NASA/GSFC): Engineer

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