It s Time to Visit an Asteroid!

OSIRIS-REx is launching soon and it will become the first American spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid! Thumbnail Credit: NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout out to Patrick Merrithew, Will and Sonja Marple, Thomas J., Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters, charles george, Kathy & Tim Philip, Tim Curwick, Bader AlGhamdi, Justin Lentz, Patrick D. Ashmore, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Benny, Fatima Iqbal, Accalia Elementia, Kyle Anderson, and Philippe von Bergen. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.asteroidmission.org/ http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/08171334-osiris-rex-launch-preview.html http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-prepares-to-launch-first-us-asteroid-sample-return-mission http://science.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/ http://ssl.mit.edu/newsite/research/REXIS.php http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/muses_c/ http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html https://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/index.cfml Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OSIRIS-REx_spacecraft.png http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-identifying-candidate-asteroids-for-redirect-mission https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:InnerSolarSystem.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(253)_mathilde.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Properties_of_regolith_on_Eros.jpg http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=871 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OSIRIS-REx_mural.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OSIRIS-REx_Instrument_Deck.png http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/osiris-rex-will-map-asteroid-bennu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0FxDxs7lyw https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OSIRIS-REx_Artist%E2%80%99s_conception.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stardust_Capsule_on_Ground.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/bennus-journey