and recovery specialist Levi Hanish, right, all with Lockheed Martin, prepare the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission for transport after it landed at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range on Sunday. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in Octob...
P1:NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flung a capsule the size of a car tire onto a bombing range in Utah on Sunday, delivering safely to Earth a sample of the intriguing and potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu. 参考译文:周日,美国国家航空航天局(NASA)的奥西里斯-REx太空探测器将一个汽车轮胎大小的...
“A journey of a billion miles to asteroid Bennu and back has come to an end, marking America’s first sample return mission of its kind and opening a time capsule to our ancient solar system,” the live-stream commentator announced as the capsule touched down. It’s been an incredible j...
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Two shots from the OSIRIS-REx probe showing its TAGSAM sample collector, loaded with small rocks and soil from the surface of the asteroid Bennu, being mounted inside a protective capsule for return to Earth in 2023.NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin ...
NASA’sOSIRIS-RExcapsule has safely returned asteroid Bennu samples to Earth, landing in Utah after a controlled descent. The U.S. has, for the first time, delivered rocks and dust from an asteroid to Earth.NASA’s OSIRIS-RExsample capsule, carrying asample of asteroid Bennu, touched...
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Watch NASA’s capsule with asteroid samples hurtling to Earth NASA has succeeded in bringing back to Earth a capsule containing samples gathered from an asteroid -- a first for the space agency. The sample return capsule (SRC) from the OSIRIS-REx mission landed at 8:52 a.m. MT (10:52 ...
After the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft enters Earth’s atmosphere and safely lands, NASA experts will collect the rocks and dust retrieved from the asteroid Bennu inside the capsule, and bring the sample to NASA Johnson for examination in a pristine curation facility. ...
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...