NASA: How Mankind Amazed with a First for an Asteroid

NASA manages to amaze humanity with a very important first for an asteroid, here is the impressive achievement of the American space agency.

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NASA manages to amaze the whole plant again with an amazing premiere for an asteroid that has been the center of his attention for quite a long time, and now we see the result of his concentration. Some time ago, those from NASA initiated a space mission called OSIRIS-REx, with the aim of closely analyzing an asteroid called Bennu, which passed at a fairly small distance from the Earth during the past year.

NASA sent a spacecraft to the Bennu asteroid which had the mission of carefully analyzing it, and thanks to it we have today the first high-resolution map for such a cosmic object. Those from NASA present this map of the asteroid Bennu in the world premiere, so that all of humanity has the opportunity to see in detail what the surface of such a rock looks like that rotates through the solar system, but also through our galaxy now.

NASA: How Mankind Amazed with a First for an Asteroid

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Bennu asteroid map made by NASA.

NASA claims that on this Bennu asteroid he found a surface with many boulders, a very complicated surface for landing, and the space probe that arrived there had problems because of this. However, considering that the asteroid Bennu has a diameter of 500 meters, those from NASA managed to land there to take soil samples, and now they have reached the situation of having a high-resolution image of the surface asteroid, something very important.

NASA claims that the asteroid could have inside it materials that are even older than the entire solar system, being described by the agency as a fragment of the formation of our solar system. Soil problems that NASA wants to bring to Earth from this asteroid could allow the explanation of many mysteries about the universe that have not yet been explained, so it is very important that they reach Earth without problems in the next year.

NASA however, he manages something that no one has been able to do until now, to make a high-resolution map of the surface of a very old asteroid, maybe even older than our entire solar system.