OSIRIS-REx Technology: OLA

Released Thursday, August 11, 2016

ID: 12334

- Produced by:
- Katrina Jackson

OSIRIS-REx Tech: Mapping an Asteroid with Lasers

Music credits:

"Drowned in Flames" by Boris Nonte; Ed.Berlin Production Music/Universal Publishing Production Music GmbH GEMA; Killer Tracks Production Music

"Nighthawk" by Beatrix Löw-Beer, Mathew Kay, and Michael Kunzi; Ed.Berling Production Music/Universal Publishing Production Music GmbH GEMA; Killer Tracks Production Music

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

Watch this video in French on the Canadian Space Agency website.

The OSIRIS-REx mission is on a journey to study asteroid Bennu and return a sample to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) will provide a three-dimensional map of the asteroid's shape, which will allow scientists to understand the context of the asteroid's geography and the sample location. OLA is provided by the Canadian Space Agency in exchange for Canadian ownership of a portion of the returned asteroid sample.

French version

Translated by the Canadian Space Agency

Planets & Moons

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Producers
- Katrina Jackson (USRA)
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
Editor
- Katrina Jackson (USRA)
Interviewee
- Timothy Haltigin (CSA)
Animators
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA)
- Lisa Poje (USRA)
- Kel Elkins (USRA)
Videographers
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)