Studying an Asteroid on Earth

NASA scientist Heather Graham receives a shipment of asteroid Ryugu samples from her colleagues at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Transcript available.Universal Production Music: “The Ocean and the Moon” s Hayabusa2 Project](https://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/)

Highlight reel of the NASA Goddard Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory. Available for download in broadcast-quality Apple ProRes. The NASA Goddard Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory is dedicated to the study of organic compounds derived from sample return missions, meteorites, lab simulations of Mars, interstellar, proto-planetary, and cometary ices and dust grains. In addition, the Lab also focuses on instrument development to analyze environments on other worlds.Like forensic crime shows on television, the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory employs commercial analytical instruments (such as mass spectrometers and gas chromatographs) to interrogate samples and examine molecules of interest. However, the goal is not to uncover evidence of a crime, but rather to study the origin and evolution of the solar system, and to better understand the habitability of worlds beyond Earth.The footage on this page is an editor’s resource reel intended for use in finished productions. It is available for download in a variety of formats, including broadcast-quality Apple ProRes.

Dante 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 InformationSee [NASA.gov](http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/index.html)

Bennu s Journey - Spanish Language Version For More InformationSee [http://www.asteroidmission.org](http://www.asteroidmission.org)

What’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. s TAGSAM instrument to get a sample of the asteroid Bennu.For complete transcript, click here.

OSIRIS-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 and Flight Dynamics will supply the KinetX instrument. This narrated video provides an overiew of the OSIRIS-REx mission to observe asteroid Bennu and retreive a sample for study on Earth.For complete transcript, click here. For More InformationSee [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/index.html](http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/index.html)