NASA's craft brings largest-ever samples of asteroid Bennu on Earth
Sunday, 24 September 2023 The Osiris-Rex spacecraft delivered the sample capsule during a close encounter with Earth from a distance of 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers).
NASA's OSIRIS REx spacecraft completed its primary mission by returning a large sample from the asteroid Bennu to Earth over the weekend, dropping its sample return capsule neatly onto a test range in Utah after giving the engineers some concern that it might crash.
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) is the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth. When it lands, the..
101955 Bennu is one of Earth’s closest planetary neighbors – an asteroid roughly the height of a skyscraper, and since late 2018, the place that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has called home. When..
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, carrying a sample of material from an asteroid, is set to make a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday. The mission, a... IndiaTimes
Sunday, 24 September 2023
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