Significant Mission Milestones in OSIRIS-REx Journey to Bennu and Back

  • Released Tuesday, January 28, 2025
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu lands on Earth at, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday. This video shows a compilation of spacecraft, airplane, and ground camera footage of the landing.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu lands on Earth at, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday. This video shows a compilation of spacecraft, airplane, and ground camera footage of the landing.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu lands on Earth at, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday. This video shows a compilation of spacecraft, airplane, and ground camera footage of the landing.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu lands on Earth at, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday. This video shows a compilation of spacecraft, airplane, and ground camera footage of the landing.

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Images of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx robotic arm as it descended toward the surface of asteroid Bennu (left) and tapped the asteroid to store up dust and rocks for sample collection (right). OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu at 6:08pm EDT on October 20, 2020.

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Images of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx robotic arm as it descended toward the surface of asteroid Bennu (left) and tapped the asteroid to store up dust and rocks for sample collection (right). OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu at 6:08pm EDT on October 20, 2020.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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Images of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx robotic arm as it descended toward the surface of asteroid Bennu (left) and tapped the asteroid to store up dust and rocks for sample collection (right). OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu at 6:08pm EDT on October 20, 2020.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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Images of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx robotic arm as it descended toward the surface of asteroid Bennu (left) and tapped the asteroid to store up dust and rocks for sample collection (right). OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu at 6:08pm EDT on October 20, 2020.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx touched the surface of asteroid Bennu, it encountered loose rocks and pebbles just barely held together by gravity. After the spacecraft captured and secured the sample, it went back to survey the site.

This animation incorporates data from the spacecraft to recreate what happened when the spacecraft touched the surface of Bennu and collected a sample.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx touched the surface of asteroid Bennu, it encountered loose rocks and pebbles just barely held together by gravity. After the spacecraft captured and secured the sample, it went back to survey the site.

 

This animation incorporates data from the spacecraft to recreate what happened when the spacecraft touched the surface of Bennu and collected a sample.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx touched the surface of asteroid Bennu, it encountered loose rocks and pebbles just barely held together by gravity. After the spacecraft captured and secured the sample, it went back to survey the site.

 

This animation incorporates data from the spacecraft to recreate what happened when the spacecraft touched the surface of Bennu and collected a sample.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx touched the surface of asteroid Bennu, it encountered loose rocks and pebbles just barely held together by gravity. After the spacecraft captured and secured the sample, it went back to survey the site.

 

This animation incorporates data from the spacecraft to recreate what happened when the spacecraft touched the surface of Bennu and collected a sample.

Format: 9600 x 3240 px (hyperwall)



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