The spacecraft will spend nearly six hours imaging Bennu, which will allow its cameras to see the asteroid complete a full rotation.
The route of this flyby is familiar for OSIRIS-REx, which conducted a similar one while searching for a landing site during surveys in 2019.Those images from 2019 will be used with the new images to create before and after comparisons.
During the flyby, OSIRIS-REx's instruments will collect data, allowing the mission team a chance to assess them after the tools were coated in dust during the collection event.