This is an animated sequence from You Tube via Astronomy Picture of the Day for 3/11/20 showing the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touching – and lifting up part of – the surface of asteroid Bennu.

The plan is to return the sample to Earth for analysis with an eye to determining conditions in the early Solar System and whether the astreroid contains unusual minerals.

This one is 101955 Bennu as featured in Astronomy Picture of the Day for 13/11/2018 and photographed by the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer aka (OSIRIS-REx) on its mission to map the asteroid’s surface.

The video collapses Bernnu’s 4.25 hour day into 7 seconds:-