... MU69 on 1 January 2019—and Juno —an orbiting mission that is studying the origin, evolution, and internal structure of Jupiter. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft departed for near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 evolved expendable launch vehicle at 7:05 p.m. eastern...

...-return missions Illustrations ( above and left ) showing the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft approaching asteroid 101955 Bennu and propelling the sample capsule back to Earth. Launch is planned for 2016. A rtist ' s conception (NASA/G oddard /U niversity of A rizona ) Over several nights...

...Figure 4. The geometry of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, which has 1348 vertices and 2692 faces. ...

... asteroid Itokawa particles (2010); (10) JAXA's Hayabusa2 asteroid Ryugu particles (2021); (11) OSIRIS REx asteroid Bennu particles (2023). Additionally, JSC curation houses some combination of space-exposed hardware, contamination knowledge samples, and spacecraft material coupons for all NASA-led...

... down on Mars. It is the first space robotic explorer designed to study the interior of a planet by using seismology, geodesy, and heat flow measurements. On 3 December 2018, the NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx reached the carbonaceous asteroid Bennu and discovered the presence of water. On 3 January 2019...

.... There is a need for a new generation of space missions to minor bodies in the solar system. The JAXA mission Hayabusa2 to asteroid Ryugu and the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu are already in flight. Both plan to visit a primitive asteroid and return samples to Earth, which will be an invaluable...

..., Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission is currently en route to the asteroid Bennu and includes the Visible and InfraRed Spectrometer (OVIRS) instrument, which is a point spectrometer that will facilitate compositional mapping of the asteroid surface and organic detection; sample site selection will start...

... applications including the search for organic compounds on Mars, Europa, C-type asteroids, and other planetary surfaces ( Bibring et al ., 2012 ; Mustard et al ., 2013 ). Importantly, the past several decades have seen significant advances in the development of visible (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR...

... the f O 2 of more primitive, undifferentiated materials such as solar gas, calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs), zoned metal grains, chondrites, cometary (Stardust) grains, cosmic dust, and asteroidal (Hayabusa) particles. Effects of secondary processes such as thermal metamorphism...