OSIRIS-REx Technology: OCAMS
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The OSIRIS-REx camera suite will provide global maps and close-up images of asteroid Bennu, along with information about the carbon-rich asteroid's chemical makeup.
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Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
Complete transcript available.
Music Credits: "Ultimate Question" and "Victory Or Failure" by Guy & Zab Skornik [SACEM]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 set of remote sensing instruments. The OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite, or OCAMS, will provide high-resolution images of Bennu, allowing OSIRIS-REx to map the asteroid, determine its mineralogy, and even take close-up pictures of the surface at less than a centimeter per pixel. After OCAMS and its fellow instruments have thoroughly surveyed Bennu, OSIRIS-REx will carry out its most important task: collecting a sample of the asteroid for return to Earth in 2023.
Learn more about OCAMS.
Visit the OSIRIS-REx mission website.
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See NASA.gov
Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Lisa Poje (USRA)
- Michael Lentz (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Data visualizer
- Kel Elkins (USRA)
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Writers
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Katrina Jackson (USRA)
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Scientists
- Bashar Rizk (The University of Arizona)
- Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona)
- Jason Dworkin (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Videographer
- Symeon Platts (The University of Arizona)
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ID: 12360 Animation
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To Bennu and Back
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OSIRIS-REx Technology: OVIRS
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OSIRIS-REx Technology: REXIS
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Student Scientists: Building REXIS
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ID: 4905 Animation
A Web Around Asteroid Bennu – Visualizations
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OSIRIS-REx Bennu Mapping Animations
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