• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 618 4351
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Completes Last Flyover Of Bennu, To Begin Return Journey Soon

April 19, 2021 by Jennifer Preston Leave a Comment

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft of NASA is preparing for a farewell to Bennu. Bennu is an asteroid. The spacecraft has successfully completed its last flyover of Bennu. NASA said that it is now drifting away from Bennu. The spacecraft will soon begin its journey to Earth. It will return with a sample of Bennu’s surface. According to NASA, OSIRIS-REx completed the last flyover on April 7. The agency said that it will take a few more days to understand how the spacecraft changed the surface of Bennu after it retrieved Bennu’s sample. The flyover will help the team to document surface changes that involved touch and go sample collection. The spacecraft collected a sample from Bennu’s surface on October 20 last year.

NASA said that the team will survey the distribution of material excavated by OSIRIS-REx from Bennu’s surface. It will help them learn the asteroid’s surface and subsurface materials. They expect that data obtained during the exercise will demonstrate the mechanical properties of Bennu as well. OSIRIS-REx during its flyby clicked pictures of Bennu for nearly six hours. The data collected during the flyby is almost 4,000 megabytes. It covered Bennu’s almost a full rotation. The spacecraft flew within 3.5 kilometers distance to the rocky object’s surface. This was the closest approach since it collected the TAG sample from the surface.

NASA said that the spacecraft will downlink all of the data including images it captured during the flyby in the next few days. When the data is received, the mission team will analyze the data to understand how the spacecraft jumbled up the asteroid’s surface. Bennu belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids. It was discovered in 1999. The object is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid. It is 185 million miles away from Earth. NASA said that OSIRIS-REx will remain in Bennu’s vicinity until May 10. It will fire thrusters on May 10 to begin its return journey. It will almost two years for OSIRIS-REx to reach Earth. The spacecraft will deliver Bennu’s samples probably in September 2023.

Jennifer Preston
Jennifer Preston

Related posts:

  1. NASA’s Space Launch System Clears Key Test Ahead Of Artemis I Mission
  2. NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends High-Resolution Selfie, First Color Photos Of Mars
  3. NASA’s Acting Chief Steve Jurczyk Says 2024 Mission To Land Humans On Moon Not Feasible
  4. Temperature In Antarctic Peninsula To Rise By Almost 1.5 Degrees Celsius In Next 20 Years: Study

Filed Under: Science

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

  • TWIS: Orcas Ramp Up Their Boat-Destroying Tactics, Billion-Year-Old Rocks Reveal Ancestral “Lost World”, And Much More This Week
  • 100,000 Soldiers: A Geological Oddity Not Seen Anywhere Else In The World
  • Most Expensive Pink Diamond Sells For Record $34 Million In Just 2 Minutes
  • Some Think Shilajit Is An “Elixir Of Life,” But What Does The Science Say?
  • US “Doomsday” Plane, Capable Of Surviving Nuclear War, Just Got A Big Revamp
  • Who Were The Real Aryans Before The Name Got Co-Opted By Racists?
  • After Months Of Warnings, El Niño Has Been Officially Declared
  • “Elixir Of Life”: Single Amino Acid Could Boost Lifespan By 10 Percent
  • 12,000-Year-Old Bone Flutes Discovered Sound Amazingly Like Birds Of Prey
  • Three New Shipwrecks Found In The Mediterranean, Dating Back As Far As 100 BCE
  • The Biggest Ammonite Fossil Ever Found Was A Whopping 1.8 Meters
  • RNA-Editing Octopuses Rewire Their Brains To Cope With Drops In Temperature
  • New 99-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Species Discovered In Utah
  • Rebound Relationships: What They Are And Why They Can Work Better Than You Think
  • Aggressive Rabid Moose Becomes The First Ever Detected In Alaska
  • Are Billionaires’ Extreme Youth-Extending Measures Really Worth It?
  • Is A Mysterious Cipher Concealed Within The “Alchemical Hand Bell”?
  • IFLScience The Big Questions: Is Jurassic Park Possible?
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions At “All-Time High,” Pushing Planet To Its Limits
  • Parents Who Phub Could Push Their Kids Towards Phone “Addiction”
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 618 4351
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2023 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version