Asteroid Bennu in HD: NASA’s stunning pictures of asteroid MILLIONS of miles from Earth

For the time being, NASA will have to rely on its multi-camera NavCam tool to snap photos of the space rock.

NASA in collaboration with the University of Arizona said: “These two OpNav images of Bennu’s southern hemisphere, which each have an exposure time of about 1.4 milliseconds, were captured January 17 from a distance of about one mile (1.6 km).

“They have been cropped and the contrast has been adjusted to better reveal surface features.

“The large boulder – fully visible in the middle of the left frame and in partial shadow in the lower portion of the right frame – is about 165 feet (50 meters) across.”

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