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NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex Probe Flew At 75 Meters Above Asteroid Bennu

NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft that’s analyzing the surface of the Asteroid Bennu is preparing to make the larges step in its mission. OSIRIS-Rex has managed to accomplish a series of rehearsal maneuvers for the past weeks. Each one of these helped…

May 3, 2020 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA Learned Valuable Data About Asteroid Bennu

A probe sent by NASA took pictures of Asteroid Bennu, a remarkable asteroid. The majestic images came with a surprising conclusion as the researchers discovered that Bennnu isn’t exactly what they imagined. The high-resolution images show that the asteroid is…

August 20, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA OSIRIS-REx Released Up Close Image of Asteroid Bennu

NASA has released a detailed image. This concerns the surface of asteroid Bennu, a near-Earth object that has been orbited by one of their spacecraft. The image was taken on June 13 during the probe’s record-breaking orbit around the asteroid.…

June 21, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA OSIRIS-REx Mission Discovered Water On Asteroid Bennu

NASA sent OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission to Asteroid Bennu with the goal to take a sample of the space rock’s soil and bring it back home for further analysis. The scientists hope that, by studying Bennu, a 487-meter wide asteroid, they…

December 11, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

NASA Discuss The Possibility Of Painting The Asteroid Bennu To Deflect Its Trajectory

A NASA official talked about the possibility of painting the asteroid Bennu to deflect its trajectory. A theoretical possibility “extremely complicated” to implement according to Patrick Michel, a researcher at the National Center For Scientific Research (CNRS), in France. To paint…

March 23, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Scientists Plan To Protect The Earth Against Asteroids With Nukes

You might think that there’s nothing new about this as the idea has even been successfully used in movies such as Armageddon. However, the scientists have planned to use a spacecraft capable to blow up asteroids that head towards Earth…

March 7, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0