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Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May is about to release a book of 3D photographs of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, based on images gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft.
The asteroid Bennu is one of the most likely objects to collide with Earth – and a time capsule from the Solar System's early days. Nasa's Osiris-Rex mission has captured it in never-before-seen ...
The 3D images of Bennu May created helped the team gauge the nature of the space rock's treacherous surface and ultimately find a crater that not only seemed to contain scientifically promising ...
May and Lauretta will also discuss the book and share some of the 3D imagery of Bennu at London’s Natural History Museum on July 31. A mosaic image of the top-shaped asteroid Bennu as seen by ...
“These two OpNav images of Bennu’s southern hemisphere, which each have an exposure time of about 1.4 milliseconds, were captured Jan. 17 from a distance of about one mile,” NASA writes.
Analysing returned samples Tim McCoy (right), curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and research geologist Cari Corrigan examine scanning electron microscope ...
Samples from Bennu may reveal how water and organic molecules first reached Earth. "Bennu's rocks are thought to date to the formation of the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago.
Bennu, it seems, was born of a salty planetoid rife with the ingredients for life. Bennu as it exists today is essentially a rubble pile floating through space, the remains of an ancient collision ...