Archivo: Asteroid-Bennu-OSIRIS-RExArrival-GifAnimation-20181203

Description: OSIRIS-REx Arrives at Bennu After traveling through space for more than two years and over two billion miles, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived at its destination, asteroid Bennu, on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. The spacecraft will spend almost a year surveying the asteroid with five scientific instruments with the goal of selecting a location that is safe and scientifically interesting to collect the sample. OSIRIS-REx will return the sample to Earth in September 2023. This series of images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows Bennu in one full rotation from a distance of around 50 miles (80 km). The spacecraft’s PolyCam camera obtained the thirty-six 2.2-millisecond frames over a period of four hours and 18 minutes.
Title: Asteroid-Bennu-OSIRIS-RExArrival-GifAnimation-20181203
Credit: https://www.asteroidmission.org/?attachment_id=12182 (image link); see also https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/osiris-rex-approach
Author: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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