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Take a peek at what NASA brought back from the asteroid
NASA has released pictures of the black rocks and dust brought back from an asteroid by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in September. OSIRIS-REx mission had sent a spacecraft to asteroid Bennu, 100 million miles away, in 2020 and returned it to Earth in September. “We’ve already thrilled with the results,” Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for…
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The building blocks of life are rich in the asteroid sample
NASA scientists revealed what OSIRIS-REx brought back from asteroid Bennu in 2020. Some of Bennu’s sample is 4.7% carbon, the highest ratio of extraterrestrial carbon ever measured, NASA said. It added the carbon and water molecules are “exactly the kinds of material that we wanted to find.” OSIRIS-REx had collected samples from the asteroid in…
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NASA asteroid sample capsule lands safely in Utah
NASA’s asteroid sample return mission OSIRIS-REx has landed on asteroid Bennu. It’s the first time that NASA has brought back a sample from an asteroid, but it is following in the footsteps of the Japanese space agency JAXA, which collected two asteroid samples in its Hayabusa and Hayabusa 2 missions. The asteroid material collected by…