A Web Around Asteroid Bennu

  • Released Monday, May 10, 2021
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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 December 3, 2018, it began wrapping Bennu in a complex web of observations. OSIRIS-REx departed 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, tracing its web around the asteroid from start to finish. It is available in both its original format and as a 360° video.

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

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This page was originally published on Monday, May 10, 2021.
This page was last updated on Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 11:42 PM EDT.


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