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Asteroid Bennu's rugged surface baffled NASA—now, we finally know why
- March 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier observations from Earth-based instruments had indicated.
Originally published at Phys.org