Planets and Moons  ID: 13857

Imaging Asteroid Bennu

Released on 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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Credits

James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.):
Lead Producer
Narrator
Editor
Animator

Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC):
Animator

Jonathan North (USRA):
Animator

Michael Lentz (USRA):
Animator

Krystofer Kim (USRA):
Animator

Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA):
Animator

Kel Elkins (USRA):
Visualizer

Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.):
Technical Support

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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Mission:
OSIRIS-REX

Keywords:
SVS >> Asteroid
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> OSIRIS-REx
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons