Sun's Heat Speeds Up Ageing And Weathering On Asteroids Like Bennu, NASA Says - ABP Live

The team of scientists analysed the rock fractures visible on the asteroid from the images, and discovered that the Sun's heat fractures rocks on the asteroid in just 10,000 to 100,000 years.

Surface regeneration takes place a lot quicker on asteroids than on Earth, scientists from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have found. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has captured high-resolution images of the a… [+3578 chars]

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