NASA’s OSIRIS-REx must avoid ‘Mount Doom’ to return a sample of the asteroid Bennu
The spacecraft will attempt to retrieve material from the Nightingale site in August 2020
![Bennu landing site](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/121219_mt_osirisrex_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
After nearly a year of appraising the asteroid Bennu from orbit, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft finally has its sights set on a sample collection spot: Nightingale (pictured with an icon of the spacecraft superimposed on its future landing spot).
University of Arizona, NASA Goddard