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NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set
Researchers believe the asteroid samples will shed light on the origins of our solar system.
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The samples are a staggering 4.5 billion years old.
NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex
(AP) — NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/nasas-first-asteroid-samples-land-on-earth-after-release-from-spacecraft/">Read More</a>