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OSIRIS-REx Animations
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- Chris Meaney
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Chris Meaney (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Tyler Chase (USRA)
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Scientist
- Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona)
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Producer
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Project support
- Swarupa Nune (InuTeq)
Missions
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ID: 12339 Animation
OSIRIS-REx L-14 Press Briefing Graphics
Read moreOSIRIS-REx is on a mission to study asteroid Bennu and return a sample to Earth. The graphics on this page were created to support the OSIRIS-REx L-14 press briefing at NASA headquarters on August 17, 2016. All videos are available for download in broadcast quality. The majority of the videos do not contain audio. Links to 4K-resolution versions appear at the bottom of the page.Watch the OSIRIS-REx L-14 press conference.Learn more about OSIRIS-REx from NASA and the University of Arizona. || 1. Gordon Johnston - Spacecraft introduction ||
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ID: 12309 Produced Video
OSIRIS-REx Technology: OVIRS
Read moreOSIRIS-REx will use its visible and infrared spectrometer (OVIRS) to study the chemical composition of Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid that may hold clues to the origins of life.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || NASA is sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich body that may contain clues to the origins of life. When OSIRIS-REx arrives at Bennu in 2018, it will spend over a year orbiting the asteroid and studying it with a suite of remote sensing instruments. The OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer, or OVIRS, will look at Bennu's spectral signature to detect organics and other minerals. After OVIRS and its fellow instruments have thoroughly surveyed Bennu, OSIRIS-REx will descend to the asteroid's surface, collect a sample, and return it to Earth in 2023.Learn more about the OVIRS instrument.Visit the OSIRIS-REx mission website. ||
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ID: 12227 Produced Video
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission
Read moreDante Lauretta, the Principal Investigator for OSIRIS-REx, gives an overview of the asteroid sample return mission.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || The OSIRIS-REx mission, launching in September 2016, plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023 so that scientists can study pristine material left over from the early solar system. Learn more at nasa.gov/osiris-rex and asteroidmission.org. || For More Information || See [NASA.gov](http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/index.html) ||
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ID: 12167 Produced Video
Student Scientists: Building REXIS
Read moreCollege students in Boston are getting the chance to help NASA explore an asteroid. These student scientists have built an instrument called REXIS, which will fly on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that launches in September 2016. This video puts a spotlight on a group of these students and their experience on the REXIS project.Watch this video on the NASAgovVideo YouTube channel. || For More Information || See [http://www.asteroidmission.org](http://www.asteroidmission.org) ||
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ID: 11964 Produced Video
How Sunlight Pushes Asteroids
Read moreRotating asteroids have a tough time sticking to their orbits. Their surfaces heat up during the day and cool down at night, giving off radiation that can act as a sort of mini-thruster. This force, called the Yarkovsky effect, can cause rotating asteroids to drift widely over time, making it hard for scientists to predict their long-term risk to Earth. Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here. || Near-Earth asteroids like Bennu pose a potential danger to our planet, so it's important to predict their orbits with great accuracy. Unfortunately, a phenomenon called the Yarkovsky effect can make these predictions difficult over long time periods. How does this effect work?When sunlight strikes a rotating asteroid, the dayside heats up; as the asteroid turns, the night side cools and releases the heat, exerting a small thrust that can change the asteroid's direction over time. In order to learn more about this process on asteroid Bennu, NASA is sending a spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx to make detailed observations of Bennu's shape, brightness, and surface features. These factors are thought to influence the Yarkovsky effect, and understanding how will enable scientists to better predict the orbit of Bennu and other near-Earth asteroids. ||
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ID: 10256 Produced Video
Instagram: Bennu's Journey
Read moreBorn 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.Below is a series of 15-second videos that can be found on NASA Goddard's Instagram and Flickr. ||
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ID: 20220 Animation
Bennu's Journey
Read moreBennu'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. ||
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ID: 11435 Produced Video
Playing Tag With an Asteroid
Read moreWhat’s the best way get a sample of an asteroid? Play tag with it! That’s the plan for OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft that will approach the asteroid Bennu in 2018. The collection will be done with an instrument on board called the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or, TAGSAM. Learn how it works in this video. || "Playing Tag With an Asteroid" is a video demonstrating how OSIRIS-REx will use it's TAGSAM instrument to get a sample of the asteroid Bennu.For complete transcript, click here. ||
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ID: 10793 Produced Video
OSIRIS-REx Mission Overview
Read moreOSIRIS-REx will visit a Near Earth asteroid called Bennu and return with samples that may hold clues to the origins of the solar system and perhaps life itself. It will also investigate the asteroid's chance of impacting Earth in 2182. For the mission, NASA has selected the team led by Principal Investigator Dr. Dante Lauretta from the University of Arizona. NASA GSFC will manage the mission and Lockheed Martin Space Systems will build the spacecraft. Arizona State University will supply the OTES instrument; NASA GSFC will supply the OVIRS instrument; the Canadian Space Agency will supply the OLA instrument; the University of Arizona will supply the OCAMS camera suite; Harvard/MIT will supply the REXIS instrument; and Flight Dynamics will supply the KinetX instrument. ||
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ID: 11098 Produced Video
OSIRIS-REx Targets Near-Earth Asteroid
Read moreOn February 15, 2013, a 45-meter asteroid called Duende (formerly 2012 DA14) passed within 28,000 kilometers of Earth - the closest approach on record for an object of this size. Although such Near-Earth Objects, or NEO's, cross our planet's orbit on a regular basis, only a handful are large enough to pose a threat. One of these objects is asteroid Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ36), a "leftover" from the formation of our solar system. In an effort to better understand NEO's and our planet's own origins, NASA is sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to asteroid Bennu to study the evolution of its orbit and retrieve a sample for return to Earth. ||
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ID: 10974 Produced Video
Most Wanted
Read moreThere are about 600,000 asteroids in the solar system. That's roughly one for every person living in Washington, D.C. And with more of these rocky objects being found all the time, it's becoming harder to keep track of them all. That's why NASA scientists have assembled a most-wanted list of about six-dozen asteroids that, with the help of amateur astronomers, will be studied in preparation for the first U.S. asteroid sample return mission. Scheduled for launch in 2016, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will orbit asteroid 1999 RQ36 and collect a sample from the surface that is returned to Earth. Analysis of the primitive material will not only reveal new information about the molecular origins of life and how the early solar system formed, but also provide insight into the behavior and movement of near-Earth objects in space. Watch the video below to see how the spacecraft will obtain a sample from the asteroid. ||
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ID: 20360 Animation
Thirty Seconds on Asteroid Bennu: Animation
Read moreData-driven animation showing how the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft impacted asteroid Bennu's surface when it touched down and collected a sample. ||
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ID: 20326 Animation
OSIRIS-REx TAG Event: Real-time Animation
Read moreReal-time animation of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-And-Go (TAG) Event. This animation accurately depicts the spacecraft's journey to the surface of Bennu. ||
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ID: 20325 Animation
OSIRIS-REx TAG Event: Animations
Read moreThe Checkpoint burn sends OSIRIS-REx toward sample site Nightingale. ||
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ID: 20257 Animation
OSIRIS-REx Mission Design: Earth Return Animations
Read moreOn September 24, 2023, OSIRIS-REx will return its sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth. The sample return capsule will detach from the spacecraft, perform an entry, descent and landing sequence, and touch down at the UTTR facility in Utah. The Bennu samples will be taken to Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas for curation, and will be studied by scientists around the world for decades to come. ||
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