OSIRIS-REx 

OSIRIS-REx is a NASA-led mission to return a sample from asteroid Bennu

Canada contributed OLA, a 3D laser scanner to measure the shape of Bennu

My job was to run the OLA program and to coordinate the Canadian science

Our team made the most detailed 3D map in the history of space exploration

Our map helped pick the site where we collected the sample

We've picked up enough material to do generations worth of science

Key Publications

Daly MG et al. 2020. Hemispherical differences in the shape and topography of asteroid (101955) Bennu. Science Advances 6(41), doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abd3649 (link)

Daly MG et al. 2017. The OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) investigation and instrument. Space Science Reviews 212, doi: 10.1007/s11214-017-0375-3 (link)

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