The OSIRIS-REx mission released its capsule containing a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu early this morning, and it landed in the Utah desert.
NASA has succeeded in returning its first sample of an asteroid to Earth, as the OSIRIS-REx mission released its capsule containing a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu early this morning. The sample landed in the Utah desert this afternoon, Sunday September 24. It was then collected and taken to a temporary clean room. Next, it will be sent on to the Johnson Space Center in Houston to be opened and studied.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launched in 2016 and arrived at asteroid Bennu in 2018, where it went into orbit to study the asteroid up close. It made discoveries, including that the asteroid was only loosely held together and that it was spewing out plumes of particles and covered in boulders. It also made headlines as some of the discoveries were published by authors including Brian May, the guitarist of Queen, who has a Ph.D. in astronomy and worked on the Bennu data.
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