#osiris rex

[hyphenndash]

You can tell I have some new favorite guys. Namely the sample return trio (Hayabusa2, OSIRIS-REx, MMX). Made my favorite 2 from the batch the most visible.

[spaceexp]

After a journey of nearly 3.9 billion miles, the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return capsule is back on Earth on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023.

Teams perform the initial safety assessment—the first persons to come into contact with this hardware since it was on the other side of the solar system.

[cyclonesandra]

INTRODUCING.....

SANNY'S FIRST EVER TEXTPOSTS🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺

[axopies]

osiris

[acyano-blepsiaa]

juno & osiris sketch dump… + tianwen 2 that’s oomfs design (@wargensire)

the baseball commish (rex) and his favorite announcer (june) respectively

[wigmund]

From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 18, 2025:

3D Bennu Image Credit: NASA, GSFC, U. Arizona; Stereo Image Copyright: Patrick Vantuyne Put on your red/blue glasses and float next to asteroid 101955 Bennu. Shaped like a spinning toy top with boulders littering its rough surface, the tiny Solar System world is about one Empire State Building (less than 500 meters) across. Frames used to construct this 3D anaglyph were taken by PolyCam on the OSIRIS_REx spacecraft on December 3, 2018 from a distance of about 80 kilometers. With a sample from the asteroid's rocky surface on board, OSIRIS_REx departed Bennu's vicinity in May of 2021. The robotic spacecraft successfully returned the sample to its home world in September of 2023. Starship Asterisk* APOD Discussion Page for Today’s Image

The APOD website is down due to the government shutdown, however new images are still being posted to the website’s discussion forum and mirror sites.

[mindblowingscience]

First Look at Pristine Asteroid Dust Reveals Abundance of Water And Carbon

A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering mor

A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that life on Earth was seeded from outer space. The discovery follows a seven-year-round-trip to the distant rock as part of the OSIRIS-REx mission, which dropped off its precious payload in the Utah desert last month for painstaking scientific analysis. "This is the biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever returned to Earth," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said at a press event at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where the first images of black dust and pebbles were revealed. Carbon accounted for almost five percent of the sample's total weight, and was present in both organic and mineral form, while the water was locked inside the crystal structure of clay minerals, he said.

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[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: There are three images. The first one is similar to a title card and shows a screenshot froom the show supernatural. Dean and Castiel stand facing each other. The screenshot is faded and superimposed with a blue background from a news show. In the front is a logo which says 'Destiel News Channel'. The second is a screenshot of Castiel from the same confession scene. At the bottom is a headline which reads 'traces of water and carbon found in an asteroid' and a subline which says 'Guess you could get a carbonated beverage on Bennu!'. The third image is a screenshot of Dean from the same scene edited so that a text looking like subtitles spells out 'I love you'. /End ID]