NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth
The pristine samples are believed to be leftover building blocks from the dawn of our solar system.
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The pristine samples are believed to be leftover building blocks from the dawn of our solar system.
The pristine samples are believed to be leftover building blocks from the dawn of our solar system.
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 off after another asteroid. […]
The pristine samples are believed to be leftover building blocks from the dawn of our solar system.
NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.