# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/jPwIISIaBq
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11739677-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/9674483c37.jpg
- **Posted:** 2014-01-16T22:14:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016.

The "Messages to Bennu!" microchip will travel to the asteroid aboard the agency's Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft. The robotic mission will spend more than two years at the 1,760-foot (500-meter)-wide asteroid. The spacecraft will collect a sample of Bennu's surface and return it to Earth in a sample return capsule.

Those wishing to participate in "Messages to Bennu!" should submit their name online no later than Sept. 30 at: http://planetary.org/bennu

Image credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Meaney
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