How NASA Captured a Piece of the Solar System's Past From an Ancient Asteroid
Rock and soil from the 4.5 billion year old asteroid Bennu parachuted into the Utah desert, completing NASA's seven-year OSIRIS-REx mission.
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Rock and soil from the 4.5 billion year old asteroid Bennu parachuted into the Utah desert, completing NASA's seven-year OSIRIS-REx mission.
A capsule from a NASA spacecraft landed in the Utah desert Sept. 24, completing a seven-year mission to return samples from a near Earth asteroid.
NASA's asteroid sample return mission: NASA's capsule carrying asteroid sample returns to Earth, providing insight into planet and solar system formation.
The first asteroid samples ever collected by NASA are closing in on Earth for a historic landing in Utah today (Sept. 24).
A 250-gram dust sample from the Bennu asteroid, collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, landed on Earth on Sunday.