Imaging Asteroid Bennu

  • Released Tuesday, May 11, 2021
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OSIRIS-REx's imagery of Asteroid Bennu from its arrival on December 3, 2018 to its final imagery on April 7th, 2021.

Music is "Greatest Divide" from Andrew Leslie Spiller, Daniel Burrows, Daniel William David Mallender, and Thomas Richard Hill of Universal Production Music.

OSIRIS-REx has imaged Bennu better than we have Earth and our own Moon. Since its arrival at the asteroid on December 3, 2018, the spacecraft has discovered boulders the size of buildings, and imaged the surface down to 5 centimeter per pixel resolution. Its onboard cameras captured stunning footage of the sample collection event on October 20, 2020. OSIRIS-REx imaged Bennu for the last time on April 7th, 2021, and will return to Earth in 2023 with samples it collected from the asteroid's surface.

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This page was originally published on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:44 PM EDT.

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