OSIRIS-REx Slings Orbital Web Around Asteroid

101955 One of Earth's nearest planetary neighbors is Bennu, an approximately skyscraper-sized asteroid that NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe has called home since late 2018. On Dec. 3, 2018, OSIRIS-REx touched down, and it immediately started to encircle Bennu in a complicated web of observations. On May 10, 2021, OSIRIS-REx will fly back to Earth from Bennu and bring with it more than 60 grams of asteroid material. The mission's whole trajectory during its time at Bennu is shown in this narrated movie.
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