Smithsonian unveils Bennu astroid sample from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission
The sample is less than an inch wide, but comes from a 4.5 billion-year-old space rock.
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The sample is less than an inch wide, but comes from a 4.5 billion-year-old space rock.
A sizable crowd turned out to see a small rock as the Smithsonian debuted the first display of a piece of the asteroid Bennu from the sample recently brought back by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
OSIRIS-REx, American spacecraft that orbited the asteroid Bennu and returned a sample of it to Earth. The roughly 250-gram (9-ounce) sample was the largest extraterrestrial sample returned to Earth since the Apollo missions to the Moon and the first asteroid sample collected by an American
UArizona officials say there is a new mission for the spacecraft that brought a sample from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth.
Dark and dusty material from asteroid Bennu could reveal new information about the origins of our solar system and how life began on Earth.