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11:24pm, 19th March, 2019

Surprise! NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe catches asteroid spewing bits into space

This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 19 was created by combining two images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Other image processing techniques were applied, such as cropping and adjusting the brightness and co...

See a diamond-shaped asteroid from all sides, courtesy of OSIRIS-REx mission

10:17pm, 6th November, 2018

Space

See a diamond-shaped asteroid from all sides, courtesy of OSIRIS-REx mission

Two years after its , NASA’s is closing in on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu and sending back pictures that provide one gem of a 360-degree view. Last Friday, OSIRIS-REx captured imagery over the course of a four-hour, 11-minute period to take in...

10:27am, 29th August, 2018

Space

NASA’s New Horizons and OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spot their deep-space targets

The picture on the left was created by adding 48 different exposures from the LORRI camera on NASA’s New Horizons probe. The picture on the right has been processed to subtract the light from background stars, leaving an icy object known as Ultima Th...

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Surprise! NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe catches asteroid spewing bits into space

See a diamond-shaped asteroid from all sides, courtesy of OSIRIS-REx mission

NASA’s New Horizons and OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spot their deep-space targets

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