These Researchers Finally Managed To Get Their Hands On NASA's First Asteroid Sample
The sample will be shared between NASA and other space agencies like JAXA, the Japanese space agency for research and testing.
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The sample will be shared between NASA and other space agencies like JAXA, the Japanese space agency for research and testing.
The top has been popped on a stubborn piece of hardware holding precious asteroid samples brought back to Earth by a University of Arizona-led space mission.
NASA's Johnson Space Center curation team members have successfully removed the two fasteners from the sampler head that had prevented the remainder of OSIRIS-REx's asteroid Bennu sample material from being accessed.
The UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from the asteroid Bennu to Earth in late September.Analysis of their contents is now underway.
At the university's Kuiper-Arizona Laboratory for Astromaterials Analysis, a suite of instruments allows researchers to study the particles collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission the down to the atomic scale.