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An article published in the journal 'Meteoritics & Planetary Science' reports the results of the preliminary analysis of the samples of mate
An article published in the journal "Meteoritics & Planetary Science" reports the results of the preliminary analysis of the samples of material from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe. A team of researchers conducted morphological and chemical analyzes of the samples, finding a lot of carbon and nitrogen together with organic compounds, all very important components for life forms of the Earth's type.
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the ori
Space has sugar and gum! We can finally eat it!
I didn’t realize the Hall of Meteorites had a little OSIRIS-REx hanging from the ceiling! They also have Stardust and Hayabusa.
NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample
More carbon than expected and an abundance of water were found in the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid sample returned to Earth by OSIRIS-REx. The two combined could mean that the building blocks for life on Earth might be locked in these rocks.
Touchdown! Alien Rock Returned from Billions of Miles Away!
After traveling billions of miles to Bennu and back, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released its sample capsule toward Earth’s atmosphere at 6:42 a.m. EDT (4:42 a.m. MDT). The spacecraft was 63,000 miles (102,000 kilometers) from Earth’s surface at the time – about one-third the distance from Earth to the Moon.
Traveling at 27,650 mph (44,500 kph), the capsule pierced the atmosphere at 10:42 a.m. EDT (8:42 a.m. MDT), off the coast of California at an altitude of about 83 miles (133 kilometers). Within 10 minutes, it landed on the military range. Along the way, two parachutes successfully deployed to stabilize and slow the capsule down to a gentle 11 mph (18 kph) at touchdown
“The returned samples collected from Bennu will help scientists worldwide make discoveries to better understand planet formation and the origin of organics and water that led to life on Earth, as well as benefit all of humanity by learning more about potentially hazardous asteroids”
After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City.
Within an hour and a half, the capsule was transported by helicopter to a temporary clean room set up in a hangar on the training range, where it now is connected to a continuous flow of nitrogen.
Getting the sample under a “nitrogen purge,” as scientists call it, was one of the OSIRIS-REx team’s most critical tasks today. Nitrogen is a gas that doesn’t interact with most other chemicals, and a continuous flow of it into the sample container inside the capsule will keep out earthly contaminants to leave the sample pure for scientific analyses.
After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Reg
This is the exact moment OSIRIS-REx became OSIRIS-APEX
Anyways, congratulations to NASA and Lockheed Martin for successfully recovering OSIRIS-REx's sample return capsule, containing asteroid samples from Bennu! With that mission done, OSIRIS-REx is not redesignated as OSIRIS-APEX, with the new mission of exploring the near-Earth asteroid of Apophis! Safe travels OSIRIS-APEX!
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The sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, blackened from its fiery reentry through the atmosphere, shortly after touching down in Utah, September 24, 2023.