British astronomer Daniel Brown, who was not involved in the mission, said he expects “great things" from NASA's largest sample return since the Apollo moon landings more than a half-century ago. With these asteroid samples, “we are edging closer to underst...
This is NASA’s first asteroid sample-return mission. Bennu was chosen because its carbon-rich material is believed to hold the preserved building blocks of our solar system. Getting pieces from this cosmic time capsule could help scientists better understand how the planets formed billions of year...
NASA’s Johnson Space Center will reveal the US’s first asteroid sample from the seven-yearOSIRIS-RExmission on October 11. This sample will provide insights into the solar system’s formation and the origin of life on Earth. The firstasteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earthby...
Why are the Asteroid Samples Collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Important? Organic Materials Found on Asteroid Itokawa by Hayabusa Spacecraft: Implications for Astrobiology First Look at Ryugu Asteroid Sample Reveals It Is Organic Rich Moon-Sized Asteroid Could Hit Earth in the Next 159 Years...
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“We have a bounty of sample on our hands already and we're not even inside” the main sample container, said NASA astromaterials curator Francis McCubbin. Once the samples are archived, the team will dole out particles to researchers around the world, while ...
This was NASA’s third sample return from a deep-space robotic mission. The Genesis spacecraft dropped off bits of solar wind in 2004, but the samples were compromised when the parachute failed and the capsule slammed into the ground. The Stardust spacecraft successfully delivered comet dust in...
NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsule landed four ...
If all goes well, OSIRIS-REx will begin the two-year trip back to Earth next spring. The sample capsule will be released in September 2023 for a parachute descent to Utah where recovery crews will be waiting to rush the material to a lab at the Johnson Space Center for initial analysis....
The Ryugu asteroid sample collected by Hayabusa 2 JAXA Three weeks later, they transferred the sample to a resin, and a week after that they looked at it more closely using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). When Genge and his colleagues first looked at the sample and saw what looked...