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NASA's novel sampler spacecraft relied on complex visual maps and inertial meters to figure its relation to the asteroid Bennu.

On Sunday, a sample of the Bennu asteroid finally reached Earth, the culmination of a seven-year mission. Now, scientists will analyse the rock to reveal secrets about the origin of life.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered a sample of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. The capsule landed in Utah at 10:52 EDT on 24 October.

NASAs first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

“We Have Touchdown!” First Asteroid Samples Now On Earth

A 250-gram dust sample from the Bennu asteroid, collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, landed on Earth on Sunday.

A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid streaked through Earth’s atmosphere yesterday and parachuted into the Utah desert, delivering the celestial specimen to scientists. The gumdrop-shaped capsule, released from the robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx as the mothership passed within 107,826km of Earth hours earlier, touched down within a designated landing zone west of Salt Lake City on the US military’s vast Utah Test and Training Ra...

After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security — Regolith Explorer)

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NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert to cap a seven-year journey.