Bennu (IMAGE)

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Bennu

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On Aug. 17, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft obtained the first images of its target asteroid Bennu from a distance of 1.4 million miles, or almost six times the distance between the Earth and Moon. Bennu is visible inside a green circle against the stars in the constellation Serpens. A NASA-funded team is investigating machine-learning techniques that would allow missions such as OSIRIS-REx to autonomously analyze images and determine safe landing sites.

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