Rough, dense with boulders and low albedo surface of Bennu revealed through images of NASA OSIRIS-REx mission

19/03/2019
During the Approach and Preliminary Survey phases of the mission (August to December 2018) a series of images was acquired by the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAMS), down to a scale of 33 cm/pixel, while the OSIRIS-REx Visible and InfraRed Spectrometer (OVIRS) and the OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) obtained disk-integrated spectra of the asteroid, covering a full rotation of the object. Julia de León, advanced postdoctoral researcher SO at the IAC, and Javier Licandro, researcher at the IAC, have participated in the processing and analysis of the images, the results of which have been published in the journal Nature Astronomy. >> Read more