3D Bennu
Explanation:
Put on your red/blue glasses and float next to asteroid
101955 Bennu.
Shaped like a spinning toy top
with boulders
littering its rough surface,
the tiny Solar System world is about
one Empire State Building
(less than 500 meters) across.
Frames used to construct this 3D anaglyph were taken by PolyCam on the
OSIRIS_REx spacecraft
on December 3, 2018 from a distance of about 80 kilometers.
With a sample from the asteroid's
rocky
surface
on board, OSIRIS_REx departed Bennu's vicinity in May of 2021 and is
now enroute to planet Earth.
The robotic spacecraft is scheduled to return the sample to
Earth
this September.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
