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Now, Nasa has published a stunning image captured by Osiris-Rex during its travels, showing our planet in breathtaking detail. Nasa has published a stunning image captured by Osiris-Rex during its travels, showing our planet in breathtaking detail. MapCam is a medium-resolution camera that will map the asteroid in colour and search for satellites and dust plumes. After a careful survey of Bennu to characterise the asteroid and locate the most promising sample sites, Osiris-Rex will collect between 2 and 70 ounces (about 60 to 2,000 grams) of surface material with its robotic arm and return the sample to Earth via a detachable capsule in 2023.