NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.
A capsule carrying samples from the asteroid Bennu arrives back on earth. It’s caught on camera as it bursts into the earth’s atmosphere and lands in the Utah desert.
"It was sort of the Goldilocks effect — this one was too big, that one was a little too small and they found one that was just right." A sizable crowd turned out to see a small rock on Friday ...
A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's Natural History Museum for ...
The sample of the space rock Bennu that OSIRIS-REx collected could unlock an ancient existential mystery Chris Klimek Host, "There's More to That" The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule (foreground ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission is NASAs first mission to collect samples from an asteroid in this case 101955 Bennu and return to ...
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IN a hushed room of a museum in Washington DC, cameras and cellphones focus on a tiny piece of rock, no larger than a piece of gravel. The fragment might seem insignificant, but it is a sample ...
‘We're really lucky,’ says Dr Ashley King, a meteorite researcher at the Natural History Museum, who will be part of the team ...
In a hushed room of a museum in Washington, cameras and cell phones focus on a tiny piece of rock, no larger than a piece of gravel. The fragment might seem insignificant, but it is a sample taken ...
