Asteroid Bennu’s Surprising Surface Revealed by NASA Spacecraft

In recent years, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been on a groundbreaking mission to study and collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Launched in September 2016, the spacecraft reached Bennu in December 2018 and has been orbiting and studying the asteroid since then. The primary goal of the mission is to collect a sample of Bennu's surface material and return it to Earth for further analysis, providing valuable insights into the early solar system's formation and evolution.