Bennu's Journey

  • Released Tuesday, November 18, 2014
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Bennu's Journey is a 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar system. Born from the rubble of a violent collision, hurled through space for millions of years, asteroid Bennu has had a tough life in a rough neighborhood - the early solar system. Bennu's Journey shows what is known and what remains mysterious about the evolution of Bennu and the planets. By retrieving a sample of Bennu, OSIRIS-REx will teach us more about the raw ingredients of the solar system and our own origins.

The animation was produced in an 8 x 3 aspect ratio at a resolution of 5760 x 2160 and is available in its full resolution, 4K Ultra HD, 1080HD and 720HD versions in both a letter boxed and a 16 x 9 cropped format.

Bennu's Journey movie poster

Bennu's Journey movie poster

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Bennu's Journey Letterboxed

Bennu's Journey Cropped

Bennu's Journey - no voiceover

Bennu's Journey - Spanish Language Version

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

Music composed by Steven Archer

This page was originally published on Tuesday, November 18, 2014.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:50 PM EDT.

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