NASA's OSIRIS-REx has delivered an asteroid sample on Earth. What next? | Explainer News
Scientists will analyse the asteroid sample to investigate the origins of life on Earth.
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Scientists will analyse the asteroid sample to investigate the origins of life on Earth.
The largest haul of extraterrestrial samples since Apollo 17 landed in Utah on Sept. 24 after being collected by the Osiris-REx spacecraft.
A mission to bring samples from a distant asteroid back to Earth made history on Sunday with the success of NASA's OSIRIS-Rex.
Asteroid Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid that is being studied by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Bennu is a primitive asteroid that may contain organic molecules that could have been involved in the origin of life on Earth. Scientists are also interested
NASA built a custom lab to study the Bennu sample and has an extensive team of scientists, and decades of experience, researching samples gathered from the cosmos.