NASA Opens Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample Canister, Revealing Cosmic Bounty
Small bits grabbed from a space rock in 2020 touched down in the Utah desert on Sunday.
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Small bits grabbed from a space rock in 2020 touched down in the Utah desert on Sunday.
After traveling billions of miles across the heavens, a sample of the asteroid Bennu arrived in the Utah desert Sunday morning.It's NASA's first mission that sent a spacecraft to collect an asteroid sample in space and return it back to Earth. In order to survive the journey, the capsule had to slow from nearly 30,000 mph to just 11 mph to safely touch down.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has finally landed, bringing the first samples from the asteroid Bennu to scientists on Earth.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx successfully delivers Bennu asteroid sample back to Earth.
DUGWAY, Utah: A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.