OSIRIS-REx Tech - Surveying an Asteroid with X-rays

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NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission launches in September 2016 and plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023. This video profiles a student-built instrument aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft called REXIS - the Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer. The purpose of REXIS is to collect and image fluorescent X-rays emitted by the asteroid, which will give scientists information regarding atomic elements that comprise it. If you like this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/goddardtv Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/David Ladd This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12282 Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC Twitter: https://twitter.com/NASAGoddard https://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts

Published 2016-07-11 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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