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coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:

I love this video so much: A navigation camera aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured footage of its capsule hurtling toward Earth, carrying a trove of asteroid rocks. Those samples are now being analyzed in Texas.
You can see a thin crescent Earth at left!
#NASA #science #exploration
https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/tag/sample-return/#:~:text=NASA's%20OSIRIS%2DREx%20Spacecraft%20Views,returned%20to%20Earth%20on%20Sept

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• This black-and-white sequence of OSIRIS-REx’s sample return capsule descent toward Earth comes from TAGCAMS’s NavCam 1 and was taken in the moments after the capsule’s release from the spacecraft on Sept. 24, 2023. The Sun is visible at the top of the frame, and a thin “crescent Earth” can be seen at the left edge of the image. OSIRIS-REx’s NavCams are used for optical navigation of the spacecraft. NavCam images tracked star-fields and landmarks on Bennu to determine the spacecraft’s position during mission operations. This sequence of images has been processed to remove most of the scattered sunlight, bring out more detail of the capsule and release debris cloud, and prevent the Earth crescent from saturating. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin