Hera is a planetary defense mission under development in the Space Safety and Security
Program of the European Space Agency for launch in 2024 October. It will rendezvous in …

Carbonaceous asteroids, such as (101955) Bennu, preserve material from the early Solar
System, including volatile compounds and organic molecules. We report spacecraft imaging …

Abstract The Lucy Mission is a NASA Discovery-class mission to send a highly capable and
robust spacecraft to investigate seven primitive bodies near both the L 4 and L 5 Lagrange …

Thermal inertia and surface roughness are proxies for the physical characteristics of
planetary surfaces. Global maps of these two properties distinguish the boulder population …

Abstract On September 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS‐REx mission dropped a capsule to Earth
containing~ 120 g of pristine carbonaceous regolith from Bennu. We describe the delivery …

Spacecraft missions have observed regolith blankets of unconsolidated subcentimetre
particles on stony asteroids,–. Telescopic data have suggested the presence of regolith …

INTRODUCTION Carbonaceous asteroids formed early in Solar System history and
experienced varying degrees of aqueous (water-rock) and thermal alteration. Most models …

Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith
Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft mission characterized and collected a sample from …

The gravity field of a small body provides insight into its internal mass distribution. We used
two approaches to measure the gravity field of the rubble-pile asteroid (101955) Bennu:(i) …

We investigate the shape of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu by constructing a high-
resolution (20 cm) global digital terrain model from laser altimeter data. By modeling the …