NASA releases an incredible video of the OSIRIS REx tagging asteroid… – AlKhaleej Today

This series of images was taken on October 20, 2020 during the sample collection of the OSIRIS-REx mission and shows the field of view of the navigation camera (NavCam 2) as NASA The spaceship approaches, touches, and retreats from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The sampling event took the spacecraft to the Nightingale sampling site, and the team on Earth received confirmation of a successful touchdown at 6:08 p.m. EDT. Preliminary data shows that the sampling head touched Bennus surface for…

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