OSIRIS-REx Captures Close-Up Asteroid Images

The Weekly's favorite space probe, the University of Arizona's OSIRIS-REx, is getting ever-closer  to a key moment in its mission of gathering cosmic dust and pebbles from the surface of the asteroid Bennu.On Tuesday, April 14, the NASA spacecraft captured the closest-ever images of the asteroid Bennu during a sample collection rehearsal. The images, taken only 200 feet from the asteroid's surface, show the rocky terrain that the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft plans to capture a sample of on Aug. 25