NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The PolyCam was tasked with spotting the first glimpse of the asteroid. It has now provided the first peek of Bennu’s surface features, such as large boulders.

To give you a better sense of the size of the asteroid and the smaller objects on its surface, NASA says that the large boulder seen in the second image posted above is roughly 165 feet wide.

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Just over two decades ago, the asteroid Bennu was nothing but a distant light in the night sky, shining from 200 million miles away. In 1999, the ancient space boulder crept close enough to Earth ...

Asteroid Bennu nearly swallowed the OSIRIS-REx probe when it touched down on the rock to collect a sample, revealing that the space rock's nature was much different than scientists had thought.

Bennu’s large craters follow this pattern, with the numbers of craters decreasing as their size increases — but only to a point.

OSIRIS-REx observations reveal that Bennu’s boulder-covered surface protects it from small meteoroid impacts, resulting in fewer small craters than expected. Instead of forming craters, impacts often ...

Asteroid Bennu's boulder-covered surface gives it protection against small meteoroid impacts, according to observations of craters by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...

Asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface gives it protection against small meteoroid impacts, according to observations of craters by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation ...

The team was even more surprised when they observed on the asteroid's surface that there were processes that were potentially capable of grinding large boulders into the regolith.