OSIRIS REx Tech Surveying an Asteroid with Light
NASA s OSIRISREx spacecraft is on a mission explore to nearEarth asteroid Bennu, a carbonrich body that may contain clues to the origins of life. OSIRISREx is equipped with a suite of technologies designed to map and study Bennu in unprecedented detail. The OSIRISREx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer, or OVIRS, will look at the asteroid s spectral signature to detect organics and other minerals. After OSIRISREx has thoroughly surveyed Bennu from orbit, will descend to the surface and collect a sample
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