Bennu's Journey
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- Visualizations by:
- Michael Lentz and
- Walt Feimer
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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 Full Resolution
For complete transcript, click here.
Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image LabMusic composed by Steven Archer
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Animators
- Michael Lentz (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- Chris Meaney (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Writers
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Michael Lentz (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Michael Starobin (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Video editors
- Michael Lentz (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Rich Melnick (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Scientists
- Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona)
- Edward Beshore (The University of Arizona)
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Producers
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Narration
- Jason Charles Miller (None)
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Project support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
Bennus Journey
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 5:00AM
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ID: 11697 Produced Video
Mission To Bennu
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ID: 10256 Produced Video
Instagram: Bennu's Journey
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ID: 20221 Animation
Bennu's Journey Animation Resource Page
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ID: 20218 Animation
Bennu's Journey Resource Page
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ID: 11435 Produced Video
Playing Tag With an Asteroid
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ID: 10793 Produced Video
OSIRIS-REx Mission Overview
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ID: 12504 Produced Video
Searching for Earth's Trojan Asteroids
Read moreTrojan asteroids accompany several of our solar system's planets, leading or trailing the planet in its orbit at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points. Detecting our own planet's Trojan asteroids from Earth is difficult because they appear close to the sun from our perspective. In mid-February 2017, NASA's OSIRS-REx mission will search for these elusive objects when the spacecraft passes by Earth's L4 Lagrange point, en route to asteroid Bennu in 2018.Learn more about OSIRIS-REx's search for Earth Trojans.Visit OSIRIS-REx at NASA and the University of Arizona. ||
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