OSIRIS-REx Touches Asteroid Bennu

Released Wednesday, October 21, 2020

ID: 13745

- Produced by:
- James Tralie
- Edited by:
- James Tralie

OSIRIS-REx touches down on asteroid Bennu at 6:08pm EDT on October 20^th, 2020.

Music is "Event Horizon" by Jochen Reinhold Flach of Universal Production Music.

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

Captured on Oct. 20, during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of 82 images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface. The sampling event brought the spacecraft all the way down to sample site Nightingale, and the team on Earth received confirmation of successful touchdown at 6:08 pm EDT. Preliminary data show the sampling head touched Bennu’s surface for approximately 6 seconds, after which the spacecraft performed a back-away burn.

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Producer
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Editor
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Visualizer
- Kel Elkins (USRA)
Animators
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA)
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Art director
- Michael Lentz (USRA)
Support
- Erin Morton (The University of Arizona)
- Nancy Neal-Jones (NASA/GSFC)
Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)