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.

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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