Bennu reescribe la historia del origen de la vida 🛰️ En 2023, la misión OSIRIS-REx de la NASA trajo a la Tierra muestras directas del asteroide Bennu, un objeto que se formó en los primeros millones de años del sistema solar. Lo interesante es que ese material ha permanecido prácticamente intacto durante más de 4.500 millones de años, así que se trata de una auténtica cápsula del tiempo química. #ciencia #curiosidades #divulgacion 👉 Referencia: Glavin, D. P., Dworkin, J. P., Alexander, C. M. O

OSIRIS-REx has spent almost two years circling near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Tomorrow, it swoops in to scoop up a sample. But Bennu has turned out to be more complicated than we expected. Thanks to laser altimetry data and high-resolution imagery from OSIRIS-REx, we can take a tour of Bennu’s remarkable terrain. When NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had predicted nearly two decades before

• Asteroid 101955 Bennu Rotating 24.9.2020 • This rotating mosaic of asteroid Bennu is composed of 40 images captured by the PolyCam imager onboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft over a four-hour period on December 2, 2018. During the observation period, the spacecraft’s range to the center of the asteroid decreased from about 15.3 to 14.6 miles (24.6 to 23.5 km). • More on 101955 Bennu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101955_Bennu • Source: NASA Goddard Media Studios • Credit: NASA/Goddard/Universi