Bird-like boulder on Bennu

This image shows asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface. It was taken by the PolyCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on 11 April 2019, from a distance of 4.5 kilometres. The field of view is around 65 metres. When the image was taken, the spacecraft was over the southern hemisphere, pointing PolyCam far north and to the west.

Credit:

NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

About the Image

Id:
ann19053a
Type:
Photographic
Release date:
8 August 2019, 18:00
Related announcements:
ann19053
Size:
2048 x 2048 px
Image Use

About the Object

Type:
Solar System : Interplanetary Body : Asteroid

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