Skip Navigation
menu close modal

Resources

Bennu and other asteroids

artist's concept of asteroids in space
Source: NASA
Published: July 12, 2018

Bennu and other asteroids represent building blocks of our solar system’s rocky planets. 

ENLARGE

Related

Looking back toward the sun brings out the thin haze that hovers 500 kilometers (310 miles) above Saturn's moon Titan. The haze is composed of small particles whose diameter is comparable to the...
More
the orb of Titan
Titan's Ultraviolet Haze
This image was taken during Cassini's third close approach to Titan on Feb. 15, 2005. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera, through a filter sensitive to wavelengths...
More
Titan
Close Titan Flyby 3, Image #2
This detailed Cassini view of the monstrous vortex at Saturn's south pole provides valuable insight about the mechanisms that power the planet's atmosphere.
More
Detailed Cassini view of the monstrous vortex at Saturn's south pole
Convection in Saturn's Southern Vortex
Although difficult to see at first, more than one moon is at work sculpting Saturn's rings in this view from the Cassini spacecraft. Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across) is more or less...
More
Saturn's ring
Two Sculptors
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the center of Datan Crater on Ceres. Datan measures about 40 miles (60 kilometers) in diameter.
More
Dawn LAMO Image 91
Dawn LAMO Image 91
A couple of craters share a crescent of lit terrain on Saturn's moon Rhea. Lit terrain seen here is on the trailing hemisphere of Rhea (1528 kilometers, or 949 miles across). This view is centered...
More
Rhea
Craters on a Crescent
Breathtaking Vista November 23, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06526 This dazzling view looks beyond gigantic storms near Saturn's south pole ...
More
Breathtaking Vista
Breathtaking Vista
Saturn's shadow passes over its rings as the Cassini spacecraft looks on in this artist's concept. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech + High Resolution (.jpg, 370 KB) + Highest Resolution (.tif, 14.6 MB)
More
Saturn's shadow passes over its rings as the Cassini spacecraft looks on in this artist's concept.
Cassini at Saturn View 5
This false color image of Saturn's moon Mimas reveals variation in either the composition or texture across its surface. During its approach to Mimas on Aug. 2, 2005, the Cassini spacecraft narrow...
More
Mimas
Mimas Showing False Colors #2
“I processed two images captured by Cassini on March 21, 2006 to create an anaglyph [a stereoscopic image that requires 3-D glasses to see]."
More
An anaglyph where we can observe Rhea in the foreground, and Saturn with its rings in the background.
Rhea Saturn Anaglyph by Marco Faccin
This image of Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows three prominent craters located to the northeast of a terrace (the terrace feature being located at left in this image).
More
Dawn HAMO Image 58
Dawn HAMO Image 58
Saturn's sunlit rings gleam in the blackness as two icy moons cruise past in the foreground. Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across) is a small crescent near upper left; Janus (181 kilomet...
More
Saturn's rings
Encircling Saturn
The highest resolution images of Pan and Atlas reveal distinctive "flying saucer" shapes created by prominent equatorial ridges not seen on the other small moons of Saturn. From left to right: a v...
More
Pan and Atlas
Saturn's Saucer Moons
This global map from NASA's Dawn mission shows the topography of the giant asteroid Vesta, with the seven most prominent impact basins highlighted.
More
Global Topography of Vesta
Global Topography of Vesta
This anaglyph made from images captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows a dramatic, 3-D view of one of the deep fractures nicknamed "tiger stripes" on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The fractures, whi...
More
This anaglyph made from images captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows a dramatic, 3-D view of one of the deep fractures nicknamed "tiger stripes" on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
Baghdad Sulcus in 3-D
For Enceladus, wrinkles mean the opposite of old age. This view of a crescent Enceladus shows a transition zone between a wrinkled and presumably younger region of terrain and an older, more heavil...
More
Enceladus
Youthful Enceladus
Titan's smoggy atmosphere glows brilliantly in scattered sunlight, creating a thin, gleaming crescent beyond Saturn's rings. At this slight angle above the ringplane, the thin F ring shines brightl...
More
Titan's glow, the F ring and the Cassini Division
Titan Shines Through
The Cassini spacecraft peers through the gossamer strands of Saturn's innermost rings, whose own shadows adorn the planet beyond. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 35 ...
More
Saturn's rings
Northward Through the Rings
Cassini Aims High in Upcoming Titan Flyby Cassini's next close flyby of Titan will be on Saturday, Sept. 23. This will be one of Cassini's closest flybys yet of Titan, at just 960 kilometers (600 ...
More
Artist rendition of Titan flyby, Sept. 23, 2006
Titan Flyby - Sept. 23, 2006
The Cassini spacecraft reveals a remarkable amount of structure in the outer portion of Saturn's A ring. The granular look of the outer edge of the A ring, first discovered soon after Cassini's or...
More
Outer portion of Saturn's A ring
Clumpy Construction
A pair of small moons that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered orbiting Pluto now have official names: Nix and Hydra.
More
A pair of small moons that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered orbiting Pluto now have official names: Nix and Hydra.
Pluto and Its Moons: Charon, Nix, and Hydra
This image was taken on March 09, 2013, and received on Earth March 10, 2013, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 49,360 miles (79,438 kilometers) awa...
More
Rhea
Craters, Craters Everywhere (Raw Image)
The Cassini spacecraft stares toward Saturn through its gauzy veil of rings. The great ice-particle screen acts like a filter here, attenuating the glare from the planet and making its high altitud...
More
Saturn seen through its gauzy veil of rings
Veil of Ice
The shadow of Saturn's moon Mimas is elongated across the planet in this Cassini spacecraft image. The moon itself is not shown, but the shadow appears just above the ringplane on the right of the...
More
The shadow of Mimas is elongated across Saturn
Mimas' Stretched Shadow
Crater Isabella, the second largest impact crafter on Venus with a diameter of 108 miles (175 kilometers), as seen by the Magellan spacecraft's radar.
More
Crater on Venus
Isabella Crater on Venus

You Might Also Like