OSIRIS-REx Slings Orbital Web Around Asteroid to Capture Sample | 4k

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 hight 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 obervations. OSIRIS-REx departs bennu on May 10, 2021 on a return voyage to Earth, bringing with it 60 gram of sample collected from the asteroid. This narrated video presents the mission's complete trajectory during its time at bennu.

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