Nasa craft shows tiny asteroid studded with boulders
Scientists have released the first data collected since their spacecraft Osiris-Rex hooked up last week with the asteroid Bennu.
Nasa’s first look at a tiny asteroid shows the space rock is more moist and studded with boulders than originally thought.
Scientists released the first morsels of data collected since their spacecraft Osiris-Rex hooked up last week with the asteroid Bennu, which is only about three blocks wide and weighs about 80 million tons.
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