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An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these ...
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Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx...Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx...
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.
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Jason Dworkin and Asteroid Sample Vial (IMAGE)
In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...
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How NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission may help us understand the origins of life on Earth
Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target. It's on a path to rendezvous with the Apophis ...
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Acoustic Sensors Detect Spacecraft's Sample Return Capsule Plummeting Into Earth's Atmosphere
In late September 2023, the samples from OSIRIS-REx were delivered back to Earth inside a capsule. Whilst NASA tracked and retrieved the sample return capsule, ready to analyze the samples ...