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An asteroid sample is about to land on Earth. Here’s what to expect
When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swings by Earth on Sunday, it is expected to deliver a rare cosmic gift: a pristine sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. If all goes according to ...
USA Today1y
How NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought Bennu asteroid sample back to Earth
The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized ...
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Here’s how NASA will drop off a sample of an asteroid
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, and in May 2021 the spacecraft headed back to Earth to drop that sample off. This week. the spacecraft ...
Digital Trends1y
NASA’s first asteroid-sampling mission continues on to a new target
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.
USA Today1y
Asteroid Bennu samples suggest space rocks could have helped seed life on Earth
Read more: Samples are "pathway to life." The Bennu samples were retrieved by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020. The robotic probe scraped 4.2 ounces of material from the asteroid and dropped ...
CNN1y
Pleasant surprise greets scientists opening asteroid sample dropped from space
The sample’s historic landing in the Utah desert September 24 marked the culmination of NASA’s 7-year OSIRIS-Rex mission, which traveled to Bennu some 200 million miles (320 million kilometers ...
Space.com1y
How NASA's OSIRIS-REx will bring asteroid samples to Earth in 5 not-so-easy steps
The Bennu asteroid samples onboard OSIRIS-REx are about to face the bumpiest part of their journey back from deep space. NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission faces the most difficult ...
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A NASA Spacecraft Comes Home With an Asteroid Gift for Earth
The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life. transcript NASA ...
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NASA’s first asteroid-return sample is a goldmine of life-sustaining materials
The fragments were from a world all their own—pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected and returned to Earth for analysis by the OSIRIS-REx mission. The samples hold chemical clues to the ...
Space.com1y
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft changed how we think about asteroids. Here's how.
Looking at OSIRIS-REx's target asteroid Bennu through telescopes, astronomers thought that it would be rather similar to other known space rocks. They were in for a surprise. OSIRIS-REx was the ...
AZ Central1y
A piece of history: What to know about the University of Arizona OSIRIS-REx mission
Researchers at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory waited seven years for the return of its NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx. The spacecraft launched in 2016 with the goal of ...