What is OSIRIS-REx?

Published on January 27, 2014.

What is OSIRIS-REx? OSIRIS-REx presents the new 321Science video about the mission and its acronym. This video explores what the OSIRIS-REx mission will do when it visits asteroid Bennu in 2018.

OSIRIS-REx is on the web at
Twitter: @OSIRISREx

Music: Feeling Positive by Matthias Harris

Thanks to the 321Science team: Anna Spitz, Symeon Platts, Melissa Dykhuis, James Keane, Heather Roper, Zoe Bentley, Rose Patchell, Sarah Spitz, Ross Dubois, and OSIRIS-REx Scientists and Educators.

OSIRIS-REx Presents 321Science posts entertaining videos about asteroid science and mission information. OSIRIS-REx is a NASA New Frontiers Mission which will launch to asteroid Bennu in 2016 and return a sample of the asteroid to Earth in 2023.

[richardbuet]

Today 10/20/20 the big event arrived !!
How surprising 😃🎉👏

[teinella]

Very nice animation, this is some awesome whiteboard drawing skills, i'm glad the launch went well and looking forward OSIRIS-REx arrival on Bénou.

I'm especially glad you will bring back samples, i love all the science being done there, but i feel like being able to go to asteroids, moons and planets but knowing nothing of what's there except basically for their concentration in atoms is kind of a shame (well not enough to chip at the pride i feel toward the Rosetta mission anyway x) ).

By the way, i know OSIRIS-REx will only bring dust back but with the current knowledge about asteroid formation, would you expect some materials to exist in form of a vein? or anything we could mine out would be scattered in dust form?

Anyway, best regards from France.

[andreaurelius]

Remnants of life in the upper most layer of an asteroid? It does not seem feasable.

[merlost]

Sample Returned...Analyzing Sample 11-10-23

[Supergecko]

Don't do it! that is how xenomorph destroy planets!!!