ASTEROID MISSIONS UPDATE
Hey Space Placers! Be sure to check out my pics of the Equinox Full Supermoon from last night https://twitter.com/SkyGuyinVA/status/1108518231130734593 Here's the latest on two active missions that exploring up close and personal different asteroids. It is pretty amazing what they are finding out and how they are doing so. I am in awe of the pics from Bennu showing ROCKS being ejected from the surface of the asteroid 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. Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin This is absolutely incredible! And no one knows WHY this is happening, either. Maybe some of these will eventually make their way to Earth as meteorites. Meteorites (Space Rocks) come from the asteroid b...