Asteroid Bennu Full Rotation (50 Miles)

Close view of rock-covered asteroid rotating.
December 3, 2018
CreditNASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona
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This series of images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows asteroid Bennu in one full rotation from about 50 miles (80 km). The spacecraft’s PolyCam camera obtained the thirty-six 2.2-millisecond frames over a period of four hours and 18 minutes.