Unexpected particle plumes discovered jetting out of asteroid Bennu
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 19 was created by combining two images taken on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Other image processing techniques were also applied, such as cropping and adjusting the brightness and contrast of each image.NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin The asteroid Bennu is the target of a NASA mission tocollect a sampleand return it to Earth, in order to learn about the formation of the early solar system....