NASA's First Asteroid Samples Land on Earth After Release from Spacecraft
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert to cap a seven-year journey.
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NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert to cap a seven-year journey.
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…
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The largest haul of extraterrestrial samples since Apollo 17 landed in Utah on Sept. 24 after being collected by the Osiris-REx spacecraft.
The capsule carried around 250g of rocks and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission.