OSIRIS -REx Slings Orbital Around Asteroid to Capture Sample |4K visualization |NASA

101955 Bennu is one of Earth's closest planetary
neighbors - an asteroid roughly the height of a skyscraper,
and since late 2018, the place that NASA's OSIRIS-REx
mission has called home. When OSIRIS-REx arrived on
Dec. 3, 2018, it began wrapping Bennu in a complex web
of observations. OSIRIS-REx departs Bennu on May 10 2023
, on a return voyage to Earth, bringing with it over 60
grams of sample collected from the asterod