Particles are seen flying off of asteroid Bennu (IMAGE)
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This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 19, 2019, was created by combining two images taken by the NavCam 1 imager onboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft: a short exposure image that shows the asteroid clearly and a long exposure image that shows the particles clearly. Other image processing techniques were also applied, such as cropping and adjusting the brightness and contrast of each layer.
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NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
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