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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert. A long-awaited asteroid sample has landed in the US
The OSIRIS-REx mission will drop off its cargo, about a cup’s worth of rocks and soil from an asteroid, in the Utah desert on September 24. Here’s how NASA prepared.
OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and reached Bennu in 2018, then spent nearly two years orbiting the asteroid before venturing close enough to snatch a sample of the loose surface material ...
On 3 December 2018, NASA confirmed that OSIRIS-REx had matched the speed and orbit of Bennu at a distance of about 19 km (12 mi), effectively reaching the asteroid. OSIRIS-REx performed closer passes of the Bennu surface, initially at about 6.5 km (4.0 mi) through December to further refine the shape and orbit of Bennu.
Mission logo for the OSIRIS-REx mission. He is Australia's only junior NASA ambassador for NASA's mission OSIRIS-REx. Mission OSIRIS-REx is to save Earth from the potential hazard asteroid, Bennu, which is at risk of colliding with Earth in the future. This view of asteroid 101955 Bennu has been cropped from the original image.
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission shortly after touching down in the desert in Utah. A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions may bring back merely atoms and molecules or a deposit of complex compounds ...
After a process that took a couple of days, the OSIRIS-REx mission has stowed away the sample of regolith that it snatched from an asteroid last week. NASA confirms OSIRIS-REx has secured its ...
GSFC manages operations for many NASA and international missions including the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Explorers Program, the Discovery Program, the Earth Observing System (EOS), INTEGRAL, MAVEN, OSIRIS-REx, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO ...