It’s only been about a week since NASA successfully inserted its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe into orbit around the large space rock known as Bennu, after initially arriving in early December. The diamond-shaped object will quickly become one of the most closely-studied asteroids ever, but for now NASA wants to learn as much about Bennu’s surface as possible, and that means observing it from every angle.
In a new video animation that has been stitched together from numerous still shots we get one of our best looks yet at the asteroid. As the probe circles the rock, its powerful lens has captured Bennu from just about every angle, making for a neat little movie.
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Here’s what NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sees as it orbits Bennu asteroid originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 22:04:43 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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