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The UA generated headlines across the globe in 2017, as evidenced by our UANews list of top 10 stories. From the installation of a new president to the improbable recovery of a priceless art masterpiece, it has been another remarkable year in Wildcat Country. (UANow will resume on Jan. 9.)
During the recent flyby, the spacecraft's cameras and spectrometers produced new views and never-before-collected optical data of Earth from as close as 69,000 miles.
Despite what you might have seen in movies such as "Armageddon," there is more to be learned than feared from asteroids, and the UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission will provide an education all its own. On Tuesday, five UA scientists talked about the space rocks and what they know about them.
![The return of the Willem de Kooning painting "Woman-Ochre" to its place in the abstract expressionist collection at the UA Museum of Art was an unexpected highlight of 2017. (Photo: Bob Demers/UANews)](https://osirisrex.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/uaqs_spotlight/public/Painting_1_0_2.jpg?itok=A6j_iifa "The return of the Willem de Kooning painting "Woman-Ochre" to its place in the abstract expressionist collection at the UA Museum of Art was an unexpected highlight of 2017. (Photo: Bob Demers/UANews)")
![On Sept. 22, at a distance of 105,600 miles, the OSIRIS-REx MapCam captured this color image of Earth. Dark "icicles" at the top of the image were caused by short exposure time.](https://osirisrex.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/uaqs_spotlight/public/MapCam_Earth_Image_from_EGA_Day_1_2.png?itok=gxQH14ef "On Sept. 22, at a distance of 105,600 miles, the OSIRIS-REx MapCam captured this color image of Earth. Dark "icicles" at the top of the image were caused by short exposure time.")
