125K views · 5.5K reactions | NASA Goddard's first asteroid sample return mission, NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission, will make a bold attempt to “TAG” asteroid Bennu at a site no bigger than a few parking spaces & collect a sample of the rocky surface. Go #ToBennuAndBack and experience what a success would look like in 360 video ↪️ youtu.be/KGdooPr8XfI | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook

This colourful view of Bennu is the first global map of the asteroid’s surface features! To create it, Canada’s laser instrument OLA collected about 20 million measurements of the asteroid’s rocky surface as part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. Check out the full story: http://asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/osiris-rex/news.asp. Video: NASA/University of Arizona/CSA/York University/MDA | Canadian Space Agency

18K views · 278 reactions | Bennu Asteroid: মহাকাশ থেকে কোন ‘রহস্য’ এল পৃথিবীর বুকে? #Bennu #asteroid #NASA #world #solarsystem | News18 Bangla | Facebook

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