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Why collect asteroid samples? 4 essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists
Missions that return asteroid samples bring home more than just very expensive dust. These samples can provide valuable ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...
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See Inside NASA’s Finally-Unstuck Asteroid Sample Container
The aluminum canister containing bits of an ancient space rock has finally been opened, revealing the bulk of the asteroid Bennu sample in all its glory. – Passant Rabie Read More George Dvorsky ...
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Why NASA is bringing some of this asteroid back to Earth
A sample fresh from an asteroid avoids this fate, allowing scientists to study its unaltered chemistry. Bennu isn’t just a carbonaceous asteroid, but one that is surprisingly close-by.
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Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered a sample from asteroid Bennu, revealing amino acids, nucleobases, ammonia, and minerals formed in saltwater. These organic compounds, vital to life ...
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The asteroid NASA just landed on turns out to be hollow, with a large 'void' at its center. It may be spinning itself to death.
The asteroid Bennu just keeps getting more bizarre ... send rock and dust swirling — that way it could catch some in its sample-collection tool. But yet again, scientists were caught off ...
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Here’s what NASA’s asteroid probe did to space rock Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is now in a holding pattern after a lengthy mission that visited the space rock known as Bennu ... heads back to drop off its sample containers, NASA did ...
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NASA’s asteroid probe shot Bennu with a laser, and this is the result
Avoiding large boulders is obviously key, but with so few seemingly “clean” spaces on Bennu it’ll still be a challenge to decide where best to collect a sample. NASA still has plenty of time ...
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NASA spacecraft finds that asteroid is just big ball pit
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had a mission in 2020: fly to Bennu, an asteroid about 200 million miles from earth, land briefly, collect a small sample, and return home. But its mission was ...
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NASA's returned asteroid samples hold ingredients of life from watery world
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...
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NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...