Asteroid Bennu

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is cruising back to Earth with a sample it collected from the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu. When its sample capsule parachutes down into the Utah desert on Sept. 24, OSIRIS-REx will become the United States’ first-ever mission to return an asteroid sample to Earth. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Lead Editor Narrator Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Jonathan North (KBRwyle): Animator Michael Lentz (KBRwyle): Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBRwyle): Animator Krystofer Kim (KBRwyle): Animator Music is "Supernatural Superhero" by Frederik Wiedmann of Universal Production Music. This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14316. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14316. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines. If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

OSIRIS-REx returns to Earth with its precious sample of asteroid Bennu. After releasing the sample return capsule on September 24, 2023, the spacecraft will go into orbit around the Sun. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Animator Ernie Wright (USRA): Animator Dan Gallagher (USRA): Lead Producer Jason Dworkin (NASA/GSFC): Project Scientist Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona): Principal Investigator This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4482. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4482. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines. If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

It's always an asteroid heading straight toward us that we worry about, never what happens to us when we head straight toward the asteroid. OSIRIS-REx's experience with Bennu tells us it's worth a thought. Hosted by: Savannah Geary ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: Jason A Saslow, David Brooks, and AndyGneiss! Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace Or by checking out our awesome space pins and other products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm1018 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm6229 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/surprise-again-asteroid-bennu-reveals-its-surface-is-like-a-plastic-ball-pit https://phys.org/news/2022-07-insights-surface-asteroid-bennu.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/osiris-rex-tags-surface-of-asteroid-bennu https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-osiris-rexs-final-asteroid-observation-run https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-newly-arrived-osiris-rex-spacecraft-already-discovers-water-on-asteroid Image Sources: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/ball-pit-kids-play-area-moving-shot-stock-footage/1351660205?adppopup=true https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020200/a020220/BennuHalfRes83_h264.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OSvtznJYuI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_hSNBmpuqY

Recorded 17 August, 2022. Since arriving at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission has brought a wealth of observations of the near-Earth asteroid revealing at the same time a lot of surprises. Bennu has proved to be consistently unpredictable. The OSIRIS-REx team found a rough surface littered with boulders instead of the smooth, sandy beach they had expected based on observations from Earth- and space-based telescopes. Researchers also discovered that Bennu was ejecting rock particles from its surface into space. Unusual, bright boulders on its surface seem to come from the main-belt asteroid, Vesta. And finally, a few weeks ago, measurements taken during the sampling collection revealed that the asteroid is so loosely packed and lightly bound to each other that if a person were to step onto the asteroid, they would feel very little resistance. Bennu may have the same internal structure as a Plastic Ball Pit. To discuss the key results provided by OSIRIS-REx, we invited three scientists involved in the mission, the data analysis and interpretation of these data. Chrysa Avdellidou, Planetary scientist at the Nice Observatory in France; Erica Jawin, Postdoctoral Research Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and Saverio Cambioni, EAPS Distinguished Fellow at MIT. Together with moderator Franck Marchis, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, the researchers discuss how they have used data from OSIRIS-REx to revisit our understanding of small solar system bodies and will tell us how expectations about the asteroid's surface were largely wrong. If you like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #setitalks #bennu #asteroid #OSIRISREx #NASA #spaceexploration #asteroidmission #Bennu #asteroidmining #astrobiology #cosmicorigins #planetaryscience #spaceengineering #samplereturnmission #asteroidbelt #extraterrestrial #samplereturn #cosmicdiscovery

Experience the “Web Around Asteroid Bennu” in this interactive, 360° video, optimized for mobile devices and desktop browsers. Bennu is one of Earth’s closest planetary neighbors – an asteroid roughly the height of a skyscraper, and for nearly two-and-a-half years, the place that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission called home. From late 2018 to mid-2021, OSIRIS-REx wrapped Bennu in a growing web of observations, performing maneuvers never before attempted in a microgravity environment. This 360° video follows the spacecraft as it weaves a continuous path around Bennu, allowing viewers to explore the asteroid from within the web. Learn about the making of this video: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-goddard-s-web-around-asteroid-bennu-shows-in-siggraph-film-fest Watch the original version: https://youtu.be/nx1r3HPGC_c Data provided by: NASA/University of Arizona/CSA/York University/Open University/MDA Universal Production Music: “Visionary” by Andy Blythe and Marten Joustra; “Babel” by Max Cameron Concors Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio Kel Elkins (USRA): Producer Dan Gallagher (USRA): Producer Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Data Visualizer Dan Gallagher (USRA): Narrator Michael Moreau (NASA/GSFC): Deputy Project Manager Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona): Principal Investigator Kenny Getzandanner (NASA/GSFC): Engineer This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13856. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13856. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines. If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu is a rubble pile of rocks and boulders left over from the formation of the solar system. On October 20, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touched down on Bennu and collected a sample for return to Earth. During this “TAG event,” the spacecraft’s arm sank far deeper into the asteroid than expected, confirming that Bennu’s surface is incredibly weak. Now, scientists have used data from OSIRIS-REx to revisit the TAG event and better understand how Bennu’s loose upper layers are held together. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/surprise-again-asteroid-bennu-reveals-its-surface-is-like-a-plastic-ball-pit/ Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab/SVS Dan Gallagher (KBRwyle): Producer Jonathan North (KBRwyle): Lead Animator Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Data Visualizer Alexander Bodnar (AIMM): Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBRwyle): Animator Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Lisa Poje (Freelance): Animator Dan Gallagher (KBRwyle): Narrator Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona): Lead Scientist Kevin Walsh (SwRI): Scientist Ronald Ballouz (JHUAPL): Scientist Olivier Barnouin (JHUAPL): Scientist Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC): Public Affairs Officer Nancy Neal-Jones (NASA/GSFC): Public Affairs Officer James Tralie (ADNET): Support Ernie Wright (USRA): Support Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Universal Production Music: “Difficult Conversation” and “Into Motion” by Peter Larsen; “Big Data” by Dominique Dalcan; “Subsurface” by Ben Niblett and Jon Cotton; “Crypto Current” by Dominique Dalcan; “Spaceman” by Rainman This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14179. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14179. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines. If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

On October 20, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample of near-Earth asteroid Bennu. This “TAG event” revealed surprising details about Bennu’s loosely-packed surface. The spacecraft’s arm sank almost half a meter into the asteroid, far deeper than expected, confirming that Bennu’s surface is incredibly weak. During the event, OSIRIS-REx collected a handful of material and kicked up roughly six tons of loose rock. It will return its sample of Bennu to Earth in September 2023. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/surprise-again-asteroid-bennu-reveals-its-surface-is-like-a-plastic-ball-pit/ Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab Dan Gallagher (KBRwyle): Producer Jonathan North (KBRwyle): Animator Kel Elkins (USRA): Data Visualizer Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona): Lead Scientist Kevin Walsh (SwRI): Scientist Ronald Ballouz (JHUAPL): Scientist Olivier Barnouin (JHUAPL): Scientist Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC): Public Affairs Officer Nancy Neal-Jones (NASA/GSFC): Public Affairs Officer Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Universal Production Music: “Subsurface” by Ben Niblett and Jon Cotton This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14179. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14179. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines. If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

After nearly five years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On Monday, May 10, 2021, at 4:23 p.m. EDT the spacecraft fired its main engines full throttle for seven minutes – its most significant maneuver since it arrived at Bennu in 2018. This burn thrust the spacecraft away from the asteroid at 600 miles per hour (nearly 1,000 kilometers per hour), setting it on a 2.5-year cruise towards Earth. After orbiting the Sun twice, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is due to reach Earth Sept. 24, 2023. Upon return, the capsule containing pieces of Bennu will separate from the rest of the spacecraft and enter Earth’s atmosphere. The capsule will parachute to the Utah Test and Training Range in Utah’s West Desert, where scientists will be waiting to retrieve it. Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex Music: "Arise" by Jose Tomas Novoa Espinosa and Sebastian Felipe Olivares de Simone, via Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Editor Narrator Ned Barbee (Lockheed Martin): Producer Will Blakley (Lockheed Martin): Videographer Dustin Volkel (Lockheed Martin): Videographer Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Visualizer Jonathan North (USRA): Animator Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support This video can be shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13865 . Some individual imagery and audio may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on stock footage may be found here https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13865 . For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines . If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc​

Samples of an asteroid are headed back to Earth, a key prelaunch milestone for the Webb space telescope, and adding a third dimension to some cool imagery … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-Samples%20of%20an%20Asteroid%20are%20Headed%20Back%20to%20Earth%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20-%20May14,2021 Producer Credit: Andre Valentine Editor: Sonnet Apple Music: Universal Production Music/"Another Way of Winning" Contents: 0:00 Introduction 0:13 Osiris-Rex heads to Earth 0:49 Webb's mirror opened one last time on Earth 1:19 Jurczyk retires 1:47 First private astronaut mission to space station 2:10 See Ingenuity fly in 3D 2:39 Viewing storm clouds in 3D

OSIRIS-REx has imaged Bennu in higher resolution than we have Earth and our own Moon. Since its arrival at the asteroid on Dec. 3, 2018, the spacecraft has discovered boulders the size of buildings, and imaged the surface down to 5 centimeter-per-pixel resolution. Its cameras captured stunning footage of the sample collection event on Oct. 20, 2020. OSIRIS-REx imaged Bennu for the last time on April 7, 2021, and will return to Earth in 2023 with samples it collected from the asteroid's surface. More: https://nasa.gov/osiris-rex Music: "Greatest Divide" from Andrew Leslie Spiller, Daniel Burrows, Daniel William David Mallender, and Thomas Richard Hill, via Universal Production Music. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Narrator Editor Animator Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): 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): Technical Support This video can be shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13857 . Some individual imagery and audio may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on stock footage may be found here https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13857 . For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines . If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc​

Join us live at 4 p.m. EDT, Mon., May 10, as our OSIRIS-REx mission bids farewell to near-Earth asteroid Bennu. At 4:16 p.m., the spacecraft will fire its main thrusters and start its long journey home, carrying precious asteroid material that it will return to Earth in 2023. Watch the countdown to engine burn, as mission team members reflect on the challenges and success of studying and sampling Bennu. Members of the science team will also provide a look ahead to retrieving the sample of Bennu, and what it might tell us about the history of the solar system and our own origins.

A look back at OSIRIS-REx’s time at Asteroid Bennu starting with the Touch-and-Go (TAG) sample acquisition event from Oct. 20, 2020, and leading up to its departure from the asteroid on May 10, 2021. More: https://nasa.gov/osiris-rex Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Lead Editor Animator Narrator Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Jonathan North (USRA): Animator Michael Lentz (USRA): Animator Krystofer Kim (USRA): Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA): Animator Jacquelyn DeMink (USRA): Animator Kel Elkins (USRA): Visualizer Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Music: "Lightspeed," Gresby Race Nash, via Universal Production Music. This video can be shared and downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13854 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

101955 Bennu is one of Earth’s closest planetary neighbors – an asteroid roughly the height of a skyscraper, and since late 2018, the place that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has called home. When OSIRIS-REx arrived on Dec. 3, 2018, it began wrapping Bennu in a complex web of observations. OSIRIS-REx departs Bennu on May 10, 2021, on a return voyage to Earth, bringing with it over 60 grams of sample collected from the asteroid. This narrated video presents the mission’s complete trajectory during its time at Bennu. More: https://nasa.gov/osiris-rex Music: “Visionary” by Andy Blythe and Marten Joustra; “Babel” by Max Cameron Concors, via Universal Production Music Data provided by: NASA/University of Arizona/CSA/York University/Open University/MDA Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio Dan Gallagher (USRA): Producer Kel Elkins (USRA): Producer Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Data Visualizer Dan Gallagher (USRA): Narrator Michael Moreau (NASA/GSFC): Deputy Project Manager Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona): Principal Investigator Kenny Getzandanner (NASA/GSFC): Engineer This video can be shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13856 . Some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on stock footage may be found here https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13856 . For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines . If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

At approximately 4:16 p.m. EDT on May 10, 2021, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will fire its main thrusters for seven minutes and start its long journey home with more than 60 grams (2.1 ounces) of asteroid material in its Sample Return Capsule. NASA invites the public and the media to watch NASA's first asteroid sample return mission leave Bennu and begin its cruise home on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/live May 10 at 4 p.m. EDT. The public can ask questions about the mission on NASA's Solar System Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/nasasolarsystem/ More on OSIRIS-REx: https://nasa.gov/osiris-rex Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Lead Editor Narrator Animator Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA): Animator Michael Lentz (USRA): Animator Krystofer Kim (USRA): Animator Jonathan North (USRA): Animator Kel Elkins (USRA): Visualizer Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Music is "Arise" from Jose Tomas Novoa Espinosa and Sebastian Felipe Olivares de Simone, via Universal Production Music This video can be shared and downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13850 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

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The OSIRIS-REx mission traveled to Bennu, a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid. The spacecraft launched on September 8, 2016, and rendezvoused with Bennu in 2018. Sample collection from site Nightingale occurred in October 2020. The sample will return to Earth in 2023 and will be the first for a U.S. mission. The sample may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the organic molecules that may have seeded life on Earth. The mission is in an exciting phase right now as the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft operations continue in the Sample Acquisition campaign. The University of Arizona leads the mission for NASA, and it is also providing the science operations team and the spacecraft’s camera system. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center provides overall mission management. Lockheed Martin Space Systems built the spacecraft. United Launch Alliance built the mission’s Atlas V launch vehicle. https://www.kiss.caltech.edu/lectures/2020_OSIRIS-REx.html Speaker's Biography: Dante Lauretta is principal investigator of the OSIRIS-REx mission and a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. His research interests focus on the chemistry and mineralogy of asteroids and comets, and he is an expert in the analysis of extraterrestrial materials, including asteroid samples, meteorites and comet particles. Dr. Lauretta heads a research team at the UA working on this mission, which has included more than 100 undergraduate and graduate students. The mission was selected in 2011, launched in 2016, and returns samples back to Earth in 2023. Successful sample collection (TAG) took place in October 2020. Sample analysis continues until 2025. This project will help ensure that the University of Arizona remains at the forefront of planetary exploration for the next decade.

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In this episode of TMRO:News we have Ryan covering continued Starship development, Jared tackles the mystery of water on the Moon, along with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx finally giving asteroid Bennu a boop. A crewed Soyuz returned and several launches go in Space Traffic, and we wrap up with an active Sun in Space Weather with Dr. Tamitha Skov. Continue the conversation by joining TMRO on Discord: https://discord.gg/9NCFaE And remember you can always help out the shows of TMRO by becoming a member here: https://www.youtube.com/user/TMRO/join GOUND LAUNCH SEQUENCER 00:00 | Intro 00:42 | SpaceX Update w/Ryan Caton 03:29 | SOFIA finds unexpected lunar water 07:45 | OSIRIS-REx grabs some Bennu 13:27 | Space Traffic 16:00 | Space Weather 19:08 | Thanks everyone! 20:08 | SECO-7 20:26 | A few pet peeves

NASA has touched the surface of asteroid Bennu to collect the agency’s first ever asteroid sample, which will one day shed new insights on the history of our solar system… so what’s next? Join NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission experts and ask them your questions! Submit them using #ToBennuAndBack and tune in today at 6:15 p.m. ET as they walk you through new images and videos captured by the spacecraft as it descended down to the asteroid's surface.