NASA showed the rotation of the asteroid Bennu

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NASA показало вращение астероида БеннуThe apparatus of the OSIRIS-REx has arrived to the asteroid December 3.

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) 3 Dec successfully arrived to the point its destination is the asteroid Bennu. Of the images that were taken with a camera, the Agency has made a video of the rotation of the asteroid.

It is noted that OSIRIS-Rex will collect samples and data about the asteroid, which are then delivered on the Ground. The aircraft’s return to the planet planned for 2023.

Mission station of the asteroid will run until 2021 and then it will start a reverse movement to the Ground. During his stay in orbit of the asteroid OSIRIS-Rex needs to take pictures of the asteroid, to draw up his map and once to touch on its surface in order to collect soil samples.

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