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-NASA on Wednesday gave the public a first glimpse of what scientists found inside a tightly sealed capsule that was returned to Earth last month carrying a carbon-rich soil sample scooped from the... -October 11, 2023 at 02:21 pm EDT - MarketScreener
NASA reveals the first images of the asteroid material collected during the "picture-perfect" OSIRIS-REx mission led by the University of Arizona.
"Boy, did we really nail it."
The samples hold chemical clues to the formation of our solar system—and the origin of life-supporting stuff on our planet.
The OSIRIS-REx canister still contains the bulk of the asteroid sample inside, but pieces of the ancient space rock found on the outside have already shown evidence of organic matter embedded within tiny bits of debris.