OSIRIS-REx Prepares to Return Asteroid Sample

Teams monitor weather and ground conditions in Utah’s West Desert, where a capsule containing a piece of space rock is expected to land.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story OSIRIS-REx Prepares to Return Asteroid Sample.

Visualization and image by Michala Garrison, created for NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio and adapted for NASA Earth Observatory, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from the Blue Marble: Next Generation. Story by Sally Younger, NASA Earth Science News Team.

Published September 23, 2023