OSIRIS-REx Technology: REXIS

Released Monday, July 11, 2016

ID: 12282

- Produced by:
- David Ladd
- Edited by:
- David Ladd
- Visualizations by:
- Walt Feimer
- and Adriana Manrique Gutierrez
- Videography:
- Rob Andreoli

Scientists Richard Binzel, Rebecca Masterson, and Branden Allen discuss how the REXIS instrument aboard OSIRIS-REx works.

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission launches in September 2016 and plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023. This video profiles a student-built instrument aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft called REXIS - the Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer. The purpose of REXIS is to collect and image fluorescent X-rays emitted by the asteroid, which will give scientists information regarding atomic elements that comprise it.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Producer
- David Ladd (USRA)
Video editor
- David Ladd (USRA)
Animators
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA)
- David Ladd (USRA)
Videographer
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)