The Take: OSIRIS-REx – the space mission to find the origins of life
Al JazeeraA NASA mission to collect samples from an asteroid older than Earth could change our understanding of the solar system. Even the world’s most advanced space scientists still don’t fully understand these questions, but a mission by NASA called OSIRIS-REx hopes to fill in the missing chapters from Earth’s origin story. The spacecraft travelled billions of kilometres to look for answers on the asteroid Bennu, which researchers describe as a time capsule from the earliest days of the solar system. In this episode: Colin Baker, Al Jazeera news editor Zack Gainsforth, space scientist, University of California, Berkeley Pierre Haenecour, cosmochemist, University of Arizona Ashley King, planetary scientist, Natural History Museum Episode credits: This episode was produced by Miranda Lin and our host Kevin Hirten, in for Malika Bilal.
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