How To Watch NASA Bring Back Asteroid Specimens To Earth
It's the nail-biting end of an ambitious mission.
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It's the nail-biting end of an ambitious mission.
A brown and white spacecraft that swooped across the solar system and stayed on an asteroid for seven years has returned to Earth. And it's brought back a space rock memento that scientists can't wait to study.They watched the pod speed through Earth's atmosphere at thousands of kilometres per hour on Sunday morning with bated breath. At 8:52 a.m. local time, it softly parachuted down onto the moist desert environment of the Utah Test and Training Range, which is located around 80 miles west of Salt Lake City.
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 capsu
The asteroid sample successfully delivered to Earth seven years after its launch in 2016
NASA's first asteroid sample return mission delivered on Sunday, when the OSIRIS-REx capsule touched down in the Department of Defense's Utah Test and…