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Seven years ago, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched to collect asteroid samples from the near-Earth object Bennu. Today, the samples made landfall on Earth, closing a long-awaited chapter for the mission.
After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed
After the successful retrieval of samples from asteroid Bennu, NASA now aims to transport the pristine 250 grams of rock and dust to its facility in Texas, from where it will be distributed to global scientists, on Monday.NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...
NASA's novel sampler spacecraft relied on complex visual maps and inertial meters to figure its relation to the asteroid Bennu.
It's been a very long time coming, but finally a piece of an asteroid called Bennu reached the United States. It didn't do it as asteroids usua...