NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a sample from the asteroid Bennu after a seven-year journey. What the probe had in stored surprised the scientists. | Interesting Engineering

Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the @NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission’s sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth. The sampling event brought the spacecraft all the way down to sample site Nightingale, touching down within three feet (one meter) of the targeted locatio

Hello, asteroid Bennu! NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission flew over two billion miles through space to meet you. Here, the spacecraft's camera captures a full rotation of the asteroid from only about 50 miles away: https://go.nasa.gov/2rhr6a3 OSIRIS-REx will study Bennu for almost a year and eventually select a location to collect a sample to return to Earth. #WelcomeToBennu | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration