Cracks and fractures in Bennu's surface seem to have been caused by heat from the sun, stunning images from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have shown.

The images of Bennu's surface mirror those sent back from Japan's Hayabusa-2 probe which traveled to another asteroid, called Ryugu, and touched down on its surface.

“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.

Images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft are helping scientists to understand why small particles are occasionally flying off the surface of Bennu, a nearly spherical asteroid that resembles ...

At the end of last month, NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx entered into a record-breaking orbital insertion, just 1.75 kilometers (1.09 miles) from the center of the asteroid Bennu, which is itself ...

Asteroid Bennu, the target of OSIRIS-REx, ... is Goddard’s first animation in the new 4k standard, providing images with four times the resolution of high-definition (HD) TV.

You can zoom in on photos posted to the NASA website to see more detail.. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized craft visited Bennu, scraped and collected material from the asteroid’s surface and sealed it ...

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 ...

OSIRIS-REx launched in 2016 and reached Bennu in 2018, then spent nearly two years orbiting the asteroid before venturing close enough to snatch a sample of the loose surface material with its ...

As you can clearly see from the images, Bennu is a big dusty ball littered with debris. ="more-5663513 ... and it would appear Bennu is much the same. Asteroids like these have the ...

The images of Bennu’s surface mirror those sent back from Japan’s Hayabusa-2 probe which traveled to another asteroid, called Ryugu, and touched down on its surface.