2.7K views · 428 reactions | Fly around in 360° as NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission swoops in to collect a sample from asteroid Bennu in this animation. OSIRIS-REx is NASA's first-ever mission to collect an asteroid sample in space and return it to Earth. OSIRIS-REx makes this daring maneuver tomorrow! | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center | Facebook

18K views · 278 reactions | Bennu Asteroid: মহাকাশ থেকে কোন ‘রহস্য’ এল পৃথিবীর বুকে? #Bennu #asteroid #NASA #world #solarsystem | News18 Bangla | Facebook

OSIRIS-REx has spent almost two years circling near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Tomorrow, it swoops in to scoop up a sample. But Bennu has turned out to be more complicated than we expected. Thanks to laser altimetry data and high-resolution imagery from OSIRIS-REx, we can take a tour of Bennu’s remarkable terrain. When NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had predicted nearly two decades before