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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA has released new images of the asteroid Pino, the asteroid Doomsday, or end of the world, which, according to scientists, are heading toward our planet, constituting the object the most dangerous space that threatens the lives of millions of people on Earth.
NASA's Osiris Rex vehicle continues to get close to Pino and take detailed photos of the asteroid, which is about as far from the sun as the Earth.
The mission of Osiris Rex, launched in 2016 and arriving in Pino in December 2018, is to conduct a comprehensive study of the asteroid, one of the most ambitious space exploration missions in the world. the history of humanity.
The photos taken by NASA on Jan. 17, 1.6 km above the surface of the Pino asteroid, revealed precise details of a rock mbad that looks like a giant oak tree.
NASA had already indicated that Pino 's collision with the Earth generated 80,000 times the energy produced by the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 1945.
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