The images are from the point in time when OSIRIS-REx approached and touched down on the surface of Bennu, which is more than 200 million miles from Earth. "The spacecraft’s sampling arm ...

Captured from orbit by the probe’s NavCam imaging tools, the photos give us an even better look at the debris-littered surface of Bennu. Don't Miss: Today’s deals: $99 AirPods 4, $350 off eufy ...

In January 2024, NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler ...

Here’s how it works. High-resolution images of surface cracks on the asteroid Bennu taken by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have revealed that heat from the sun may age asteroids prematurely.

High-resolution images are accessible for viewing on the NASA website. The material from Bennu reached Earth on September 24, 2023, after being jettisoned by the OSIRIS-REx probe, about 66,489 ...

These images were recorded over a 10-minute span during OSIRIS-REx’ rehearsal above Bennu’s surface in April 2020. The spacecraft’s sampling arm, called the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition ...

NASA officials in Houston displayed images of salt-and-pepper chunks of rock and particles of dark space dust that were brought back to Earth from the asteroid, Bennu, and described initial ...

Getty Images Bennu was first discovered by telescope in 1999. Six years later, it was chosen as a candidate for a Nasa mission to recover asteroid samples and return them to Earth for detailed study.

That was made more difficult by the uneven ground of Bennu. Photos of the asteroid revealed some sandy regions — but only inside bowl-shaped craters. “We got to get inside one of those,” Dr ...

The team used unprecedented, high-resolution global data sets to examine craters on Bennu: images from the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite and surface-height data (topography) derived from the OSIRIS-REx ...

This new perspective on the surface composition of Bennu comes via closeup images OSIRIS-REx collected as it snatched its precious sample. Prior laboratory testing had indicated the probe would ...

Recently released images by OSIRIS-REx revealed yet another discovery, showing cracks in the rocks on asteroid Bennu, which appear to have been caused by the Sun. This discovery is a huge deal to ...