OSIRIS-REx Snaps its First Pic of Asteroid Bennu

If you think your commute is bad, try traveling over a billion miles to get to work.After almost two years of space travel, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft finally has a clear view of its jobsite — a near-Earth, carbon-rich asteroid named Bennu.The craft’s PolyCam camera captured its first image of Bennu on August 17 from a distance just 1.4 million miles (2.25 million kilometers), and will no