This Aug. 11, 2020 photo shows the sampling arm of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during a rehearsal for an approach to the "Nightingale" sample site on the surface of the asteroid Bennu.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is giving scientists an even better look at the surface of the space rock known as Bennu now that it’s moved even closer to the object.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission released its first photographs taken from just a mile above the surface of the asteroid Bennu. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Space. Search.

The spacecraft took these images on January 17 when it was only a mile (1.6 kilometers) above Bennu’s surface, using its NavCam 1 navigation camera, according to a NASA release.

Photo of Asteroid Bennu Taken by OSIRIS. Published: 31 Aug 2018, 13:27 ... the mission team will spend the next few months learning as much as possible about Bennu’s size, shape, surface ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is giving scientists an even better look at the surface of the space rock known as Bennu now that it’s moved even closer to the object. A new photo posted by ...

A near-Earth asteroid named Bennu has a loosely packed surface similar to a pit of plastic balls, according to NASA scientists. A spacecraft collected a sample from the asteroid in October 2020 ...

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 ...

This global map of asteroid Bennu's surface is a mosaic of images collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft between March 7 and April 19 last year. The US space agency confirmed 2,155 PolyCam ...

This photo shows the sampling arm of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during a rehearsal for an approach to the "Nightingale" sample site on the surface of the asteroid Bennu.

Bennu's rocky surface poses a number of unique challenges for OSIRIS-REx, which launched to the far-off asteroid in 2016 to collect a sample and return it to Earth as the first U.S. craft to do so ...

NASA is taking its documentation of Bennu to another level with a recently released pair of photos the space agency says were made about 1 mile above the asteroid’s surface.