OSIRIS-REx Mission to Take a Few More Pictures Before Heading Home UCF Physics professors eager to see what new images will reveal about asteroid Bennu ahead of returning samples to Earth in 2023.
UCF Professor Briefs Planetary Sciences Community about NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission During Conference NASA also announces successful storage of asteroid Bennu sample, after a 36-hour marathon operation.
OSIRIS REx Ready to for Touch-and-Go Maneuver on Tuesday, Oct. 20 UCF Professor Humberto Campins shares excitement about his involvement with NASA’s first mission to retrieve an asteroid sample.
Asteroid Bennu Continues to Surprise Scientists UCF professor part of team which published findings in Nature Astronomy this week. The study sheds light on the intricate orbital dance of asteroids.
Virtual Class Offers UCF Students Rare Opportunity with Live NASA Mission Students enrolled in this semester’s Comets, Asteroids and Meteorites class will get a behind-the-scenes experience thanks to physics Professor Humberto Campins, who is teaching remotely from the site of mission control for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx.
What a View: OSIRIS REx Mission Captures Images of Test Run Maneuver Near Asteroid After making necessary changes to their mapping plan, researchers conducted a successful dress rehearsal ahead of the August sampling event.
OSIRIS-REx Team Offers Insight into Asteroid Bennu Activity in New Science Article Research team offers three explanations for why the asteroid is ejecting particles into space.
Asteroid Bennu Gives NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Team Lots of Surprises UCF physics Professor Humberto Campins is part of the team studying Bennu, which may contain the molecular precursors to the origin of life and the Earth’s oceans.
First Images from OSIRIS REx Mission Have Scientists Buzzing with Excitement Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico plays a role in OSIRIS REx mission planning.
NASA Space Mission Gives UCF Students Opportunity to See How Research Pays Off Pegasus Professor of physics Humberto Campins plans to use his work on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to show students the relevance of research in making big discoveries.
