NASA Spacecraft to Touch Down on Asteroid Bennu in October to Collect Rock Samples
4 years, 3 months ago

NASA Spacecraft to Touch Down on Asteroid Bennu in October to Collect Rock Samples

News 18  

After a four-year journey, NASA’s robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu’s boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples, the agency said Thursday. “Years of planning and hard work by this team are essentially coming down to putting the TAGSAM into contact with the surface for just five to 10 seconds,” said Mike Moreau, OSIRIS-REx deputy project manager. NASA has chosen a site called Nightingale, a rocky area 52 feet in diameter, for the spacecraft’s robotic arm to attempt to collect a sample, because it holds the greatest amount of unobstructed fine-grained material. OSIRIS-REx is supposed to collect at least 2 ounces of Bennu’s rocky material to bring back to Earth –- the largest sample return from space since the Apollo program.

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NASA makes stunning move on Asteroid Bennu samples after OSIRIS-REx mission success
8 months, 3 weeks ago

NASA makes stunning move on Asteroid Bennu samples after OSIRIS-REx mission success

Hindustan Times  

Asteroid Bennu is back in the news again and this time, it is there for a good reason. Ever since the return of the samples via the US space agency NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, the news had been negative as the lid of the container with the samples inside just could not be pried open by the arguably, technologically most advanced …

NASA sends spacecraft to explore mysterious, rare metal asteroid in 1st mission of its kind | Here are DETAILS
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA sends spacecraft to explore mysterious, rare metal asteroid in 1st mission of its kind | Here are DETAILS

India TV News  

NASA Psyche mission: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Psyche spacecraft rocketed away today on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid. “But there's one way in our solar system that we can look at a metal core and that is by going to this asteroid.” Astronomers know from radar and other observations that the asteroid is big- about …

NASA to unveil first newly returned near-Earth asteroid sample
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA to unveil first newly returned near-Earth asteroid sample

Hindustan Times  

NASA was set on Wednesday to provide a first peek for the public at what scientists found inside a tightly sealed canister that was returned to Earth last month carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid. The material collected by the OSRIS-REx spacecraft three years ago from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu was to …

NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraft
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraft

LA Times  

Ancient black dust from asteroid Bennu is visible outside the OSIRIS-REx sample collector, with more material inside. NASA on Wednesday showed off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft — a jumble of black dust and rubble that’s the most ever returned to Earth. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected the samples three years ago from the surface of …

NASA predicts asteroid Bennu may hit Earth in THIS year | Details
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA predicts asteroid Bennu may hit Earth in THIS year | Details

India TV News  

NASA has reason to believe that the asteroid Bennu which was discovered in 1999 can hit the Earth in 159 years. NASA has estimated that this asteroid may hit the Earth on September 24, 2182. In 2021, a NASA spacecraft successfully touched down on the rugged surface of asteroid Bennu and collected a sample of rocks dating back to the …

A 3D map of an eerie asteroid
1 year, 2 months ago

A 3D map of an eerie asteroid

BBC  

A far-off asteroid brought to life in 3D Brian May and Claudia Manzoni The asteroid Bennu is one of the most likely objects to collide with Earth – and a time capsule from the Solar System's early days. The team also enlisted the help of an English rock guitarist, whose lifelong interest in both outer space and 3D-imaging techniques helped …

OSIRIS-REx and Bennu: Sample return missions explained
1 year, 2 months ago

OSIRIS-REx and Bennu: Sample return missions explained

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 25, 2023 18:40 IST - 4 MINS READ NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is a robotic spacecraft that has been on a seven-year mission to collect and return samples from an asteroid called Bennu—billions of kilometres from Earth. At an altitude of about 250 kilometres from the surface of Earth, OSIRIS-REx will release a capsule carrying the samples over the …

Nasa lands Bennu asteroid samples back on Earth
1 year, 3 months ago

Nasa lands Bennu asteroid samples back on Earth

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The capsule even conveniently landed near a road!” Reacting to the landing, Queen musician Brian May, who …

Asteroid Bennu may reveal secrets of life on Earth. Its sample in NASA capsule will have…
1 year, 3 months ago

Asteroid Bennu may reveal secrets of life on Earth. Its sample in NASA capsule will have…

Hindustan Times  

After seven years of expedition and logging over 6.2 billion km, mothership Osiris-Rex has succesfully delivered rubble from an asteroid, Bennu, situated at such a distance from Earth that it is believed to come ‘dagerously close’ to the planet by next century which may lead to a possible collision. Undated image provided by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu seen from …

'Touchdown': NASA control room rejoices as first asteroid samples land on Earth
1 year, 3 months ago

'Touchdown': NASA control room rejoices as first asteroid samples land on Earth

Hindustan Times  

NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. This image taken from video provided by NASA TV shows the capsule released by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft lying on the surface near the parachute after landing to Earth. Preserved building blocks from the dawn of our solar system 4.5 billion years …

NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth in stunning live video after release from spacecraft - SEVEN years after $1Billion OSIRIS-REx launch
1 year, 3 months ago

NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth in stunning live video after release from spacecraft - SEVEN years after $1Billion OSIRIS-REx launch

Daily Mail  

NASA scientists screamed in delight as they watched a parachute deliver their first samples of material from a world beyond the Moon. The capsule came to a rest in the Utah desert on Sunday morning after being dropped by parachute NASA scientists had to the test the nearby air and soil for extra-terrestrial contaminants before touching the capsule ‘The biggest …

NASA capsule carrying first asteroid samples lands on Earth
1 year, 3 months ago

NASA capsule carrying first asteroid samples lands on Earth

The Hindu  

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert on September 24 to cap a seven-year journey. Scientists estimate the capsule holds at least a cup of rubble from the carbon-rich asteroid known as Bennu, but won’t know for sure until the container is opened. Preserved building blocks from the dawn of our solar system 4.5 …

All about asteroid Bennu, a ticking n-bomb that could destroy Earth and NASA's mission to prevent it
1 year, 3 months ago

All about asteroid Bennu, a ticking n-bomb that could destroy Earth and NASA's mission to prevent it

Hindustan Times  

Asteroid Bennu, named after an ancient Egyptian mythological bird, that is associated with the Sun, creation and rebirth has been predicted to hit the Earth by NASA. The ticking n-bomb Bennu According to scientists, Bennu which is taller than the Empire State Building and 510 meters wide- could release 1,2000 megatons of energy if it hit Earth, i.e. NASA states …

Capsule with NASA’s first asteroid samples lands on Earth after release from spacecraft
1 year, 3 months ago

Capsule with NASA’s first asteroid samples lands on Earth after release from spacecraft

LA Times  

Mission operations assurance lead Graham Miller, left, recovery specialist Michael Kaye, and recovery specialist Levi Hanish, right, all with Lockheed Martin, prepare the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission for transport after it landed at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range on Sunday. A helicopter transports a capsule carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples at Dugway Proving …

NASA's spacecraft drops asteroid sample capsule. What to expect?
1 year, 3 months ago

NASA's spacecraft drops asteroid sample capsule. What to expect?

Hindustan Times  

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's spacecraft, transporting a sample from a near-Earth asteroid, made a flyby past Earth this Sunday. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touched the Bennu asteroid’s surface and collected a sample of rock and dust from the asteroid in 2020. It sped past Earth and jettisoned its sample capsule containing material from the asteroid. • Additionally, Bennu's …

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission set for historic asteroid Bennu sample return next week
1 year, 3 months ago

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission set for historic asteroid Bennu sample return next week

Hindustan Times  

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is set to create history on September 24, 2023, by bringing back samples from the asteroid Bennu after spending seven years in deep space. Asteroid Bennu is a potentially hazardous, near-Earth space rock that has a nearly 1 in 1,800 chance of colliding with Earth in the next 300 years. What is NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission Launched in …

Osiris-Rex adjusts course to get closer to Earth with asteroid samples
1 year, 4 months ago

Osiris-Rex adjusts course to get closer to Earth with asteroid samples

India Today  

Nasa's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, currently on a return journey from asteroid Bennu, has made a critical course adjustment to ensure its successful arrival back to Earth. This change in speed and direction is vital for the spacecraft to get close enough to Earth to deliver its precious cargo - a sample from asteroid Bennu. This trajectory correction maneuver is the final …

Smacked asteroid's debris trail more than 6,000 miles long
2 years, 2 months ago

Smacked asteroid's debris trail more than 6,000 miles long

The Hindu  

The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact. Their remarkable observation two days after last month's planetary defense test was recently released a National Science Foundation lab in Arizona. The image shows an expanding, comet-like tail more than 6,000 miles long, consisting of dust and other …

Scientists ‘surprised’ to find that Sun ages some asteroids much sooner than earlier thought
2 years, 4 months ago

Scientists ‘surprised’ to find that Sun ages some asteroids much sooner than earlier thought

The Independent  

“Surprised” scientists have discovered that the Sun’s heat likely fractures rocks on asteroid Bennu in only 10,000-100,000 years, an advance suggesting space rocks age more rapidly than earlier thought. High-resolution images of rock fractures on asteroid Bennu taken by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft were analysed by researchers, said the study, published recently in the journal Nature Geoscience. Using data from the …

Science for All | The strange surface of asteroid Bennu
2 years, 5 months ago

Science for All | The strange surface of asteroid Bennu

The Hindu  

This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! NASA’s space mission to study asteroid Bennu could have ended in disaster if it did not leave immediately after collecting samples from its surface in October 2020. The space organisation has revealed its findings after analysing the …

Asteroid Bennu's surface is like plastic ball pit same as play area for kids
2 years, 5 months ago

Asteroid Bennu's surface is like plastic ball pit same as play area for kids

India Today  

The OSIRIS-ReX mission returning to Earth after successfully scooping rock and soil samples has revealed a unique makeup of Asteroid Bennu. Scientists, after analysing the initial data gathered by the spacecraft as it swooped in to make the touch-and-go manoeuvre have realised that had it fired the thrusters, it could have sunk into Bennu due to the particles that make …

Martian soil set to come to Earth: Perseverance rover captures, stores first rock samples from Mars surface
3 years, 3 months ago

Martian soil set to come to Earth: Perseverance rover captures, stores first rock samples from Mars surface

India Today  

Decades after exploring the barren surface of Mars from millions of kilometres away, humans will soon get their hands on the Martian regolith thanks to an SUV sized astrobiologist trundling on the Red Planet. The rover -- Nasa's Perseverance -- has now successfully collected, processed and sealed the first samples from the Martian surface to be brought to Earth for …

Nasa scientists learn more about asteroid Bennu’s future orbit
3 years, 4 months ago

Nasa scientists learn more about asteroid Bennu’s future orbit

Live Mint  

In a study released this week, researchers at Nasa used precision-tracking data from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu through the year 2300. “NASA’s Planetary Defense mission is to find and monitor asteroids and comets that can come near Earth and may pose a hazard to our planet,” said Kelly Fast, program manager …

Asteroid Bennu has slightly higher chance of hitting Earth than previously thought, scientists track movement
3 years, 4 months ago

Asteroid Bennu has slightly higher chance of hitting Earth than previously thought, scientists track movement

India Today  

The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The spacecraft collected enough data over 2 1/2 years to help scientists better predict the asteroid’s orbital path well into the future. If Bennu did slam into Earth, it wouldn’t wipe out life, dinosaur-style, but rather create a crater roughly 10 …

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on track with samples from asteroid Bennu, Nasa decides against course correction
3 years, 6 months ago

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on track with samples from asteroid Bennu, Nasa decides against course correction

India Today  

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which recently bid farewell to asteroid Bennu, is on track to deliver the samples collected from its surface to the Earth on September 24, 2023. American space agency Nasa launched OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2016 to bring back samples from the surface of this carbon dominated body in the solar system. The May 10-burn had put the spacecraft …

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft way back to Earth with asteroid sample
3 years, 7 months ago

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft way back to Earth with asteroid sample

India TV News  

After nearly five years in space, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the US space agency said. This burn thrust the spacecraft away from the asteroid at 600 miles per hour, setting it on a 2.5-year cruise …

NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble
3 years, 7 months ago

NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble

India TV News  

With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror. Osiris-Rex reached asteroid Bennu in 2018 and spent two years flying near and around it, before collecting rubble from the surface last fall. “I've been working on getting …

NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble
3 years, 7 months ago

NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble

Associated Press  

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror. Osiris-Rex reached asteroid Bennu in 2018 and spent two years flying near and around it, before collecting rubble from the surface last fall. “I’ve …

NASA's Osirix-Red Spacecraft Left a Mess on Asteroid Bennu While Trying to Collect Samples
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's Osirix-Red Spacecraft Left a Mess on Asteroid Bennu While Trying to Collect Samples

News 18  

A NASA spacecraft left a mess at an asteroid when it grabbed a load of rubble last year for return to Earth, new pictures revealed Thursday. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft made one final flyby of asteroid Bennu on April 7 to take photos of the disturbance left by October’s sample collection. Osiris-Rex will depart Bennu’s vicinity next month and head back …

NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaves mess after grabbing asteroid samples
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaves mess after grabbing asteroid samples

India TV News  

A National Aeronautics and Space Administration spacecraft left a mess at an asteroid when it grabbed a load of rubble last year for return to Earth, new pictures revealed on Thursday. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made one final flyby of asteroid Bennu on April 7 to take photos of the disturbance left by October's sample collection. Osiris-Rex will depart Bennu's vicinity …

NASA Spacecraft Left a Mess After Grabbing Asteroid Samples Before Returning to Earth
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA Spacecraft Left a Mess After Grabbing Asteroid Samples Before Returning to Earth

News 18  

A NASA spacecraft left a mess at an asteroid when it grabbed a load of rubble last year for return to Earth, new pictures revealed Thursday. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft made one final flyby of asteroid Bennu on April 7 to take photos of the disturbance left by October’s sample collection. Osiris-Rex will depart Bennu”s vicinity next month and head back …

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Prepares For Final Flyby of Asteroid Bennu Before Returning to Earth
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Prepares For Final Flyby of Asteroid Bennu Before Returning to Earth

News 18  

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close encounter with Bennu on April 7 as it performs a final flyover to capture images of the asteroid’s surface. This final flyby of Bennu will provide the mission team an opportunity to learn how the spacecraft’s contact with Bennu’s surface altered the sample site and the region surrounding it. The spacecraft will …

NASA mission will zoom by asteroid Bennu before returning sample to Earth
3 years, 10 months ago

NASA mission will zoom by asteroid Bennu before returning sample to Earth

CNN  

CNN — A NASA spacecraft that took a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles away now has a plan to come back home. On May 10, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will leave the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and begin a nearly three-year journey back to Earth, NASA officials announced this week. In April, the spacecraft will conduct a final flyby of …

Asteroid samples from Hayabusa-2 leave Japan scientists speechless
4 years ago

Asteroid samples from Hayabusa-2 leave Japan scientists speechless

Live Mint  

Scientists in Japan said on 15 December they were left "speechless" when they saw how much asteroid dust was inside a capsule delivered by the Hayabusa-2 space probe in an unprecedented mission. The Japanese probe collected surface dust and pristine material last year from the asteroid Ryugu, around 300 million kilometres away, during two daring phases of its six-year mission. …

Asteroid Bennu's interior could be like 'crème-filled chocolate egg flying through space', say scientists
4 years, 1 month ago

Asteroid Bennu's interior could be like 'crème-filled chocolate egg flying through space', say scientists

India Today  

Asteroid Bennu, the samples of which were collected by Nasa spacecraft OSIRIS-REx in a historic mission, might be hollow. According to scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder, the interior of the diamond-shaped asteroid Bennu could be "weaker and less dense than its outer layers -- like a crème-filled chocolate egg flying through space". Scientists used OSIRIS-REx’s navigational instruments and …

NASA's Osiris-Rex tucks asteroid samples into capsule for return to Earth
4 years, 1 month ago

NASA's Osiris-Rex tucks asteroid samples into capsule for return to Earth

The Hindu  

A NASA spacecraft tucked more than two kilograms of asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth after losing some of its precious loot because of a jammed lid, scientists said Thursday. “We’ve still got a lot of work to do” to get the samples back safely, said lead scientist Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona. But tens …

NASA Confirms That Osiris-Rex Probe Successfully Scooped Up Sample From Asteroid Bennu
4 years, 1 month ago

NASA Confirms That Osiris-Rex Probe Successfully Scooped Up Sample From Asteroid Bennu

News 18  

NASA said Thursday its robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex was able to stow a rock and dust sample scooped up from the asteroid Bennu, after a flap that had wedged open put the mission at risk. On Thursday, NASA said it had been able a day earlier to maneuver the robotic arm holding the leaking particles to a storage capsule near the …

Asteroid Bennu Has Been in Earth's Vicinity for 1.75 Million Years, Reveals New Study
4 years, 1 month ago

Asteroid Bennu Has Been in Earth's Vicinity for 1.75 Million Years, Reveals New Study

News 18  

Asteroid Bennu has been in the news for the past few weeks for NASA’s historic sample collection mission on the space rock. Research has revealed that the asteroid has been in an orbit that brings it astronomically close to our home planet for 1.75 million years. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent by NASA to collect samples from the asteroid has proved …

Samples of asteroid Bennu are spilling out from NASA's jammed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft
4 years, 1 month ago

Samples of asteroid Bennu are spilling out from NASA's jammed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft

Firstpost  

Bennu was chosen by NASA for its carbon-rich character, thought to have held on to the building blocks of the solar system. A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday. Scientists announced the news three days after the spacecraft …

Asteroid samples leaking from jammed NASA spacecraft
4 years, 2 months ago

Asteroid samples leaking from jammed NASA spacecraft

The Hindu  

A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday. Scientists announced the news three days after the spacecraft named Osiris-Rex briefly touched asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first attempt at such a mission. The mission’s lead scientist, Dante Lauretta of the University …

Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft
4 years, 2 months ago

Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft

Hindustan Times  

A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday. Scientists announced the news three days after the spacecraft named Osiris-Rex briefly touched asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first attempt at such a mission. The mission’s lead scientist, Dante Lauretta, said Tuesday’s operation …

Asteroid Bennu samples spill back into space from jammed Nasa spacecraft OSIRIS-REx
4 years, 2 months ago

Asteroid Bennu samples spill back into space from jammed Nasa spacecraft OSIRIS-REx

India Today  

Nasa spacecraft OSIRIS-REx, that collected sample from a diamond-shaped asteroid Bennu earlier this week, is now stuffed with so much rubble from this week's grab that it's jammed open and precious particles are spilling back out into space, scientists said on Friday. In the "Touch-and-Go" mission carried out on Tuesday, Nasa spacecraft OSIRIS-REx managed to tag asteroid Bennu and collect …

Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft
4 years, 2 months ago

Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft

LA Times  

A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday. Scientists announced the news three days after the spacecraft named Osiris-Rex briefly touched asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first attempt at such a mission. The mission’s lead scientist, Dante Lauretta, said Tuesday’s operation …

NASA asteroid surface sampling on asteroid Bennu likely successful
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA asteroid surface sampling on asteroid Bennu likely successful

Hindustan Times  

NASA on Wednesday released its first images of a sampling operation carried out on the asteroid Bennu, which appeared to show successful recovery of rock and dust, or as one official put it, “the kind of mess we were hoping for.” In this image taken from video released by NASA, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches the surface of asteroid Bennu on …

NASA spacecraft collects rock samples from asteroid Bennu
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA spacecraft collects rock samples from asteroid Bennu

India TV News  

A NASA spacecraft successfully touched down on the rugged surface of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, collecting a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring back to Earth, the US space agency said. "This amazing first for NASA demonstrates how an incredible team from across the country came together and persevered through incredible challenges …

NASA spacecraft grabs sample of rocks from asteroid Bennu
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA spacecraft grabs sample of rocks from asteroid Bennu

The Hindu  

A NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, extended its 11-foot robotic arm toward a flat patch of gravel near Bennus north pole and plucked the sample of …

NASA's Probe Osiris-Rex 'Kisses' Asteroid Bennu After Four-Year Long Historic Mission
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA's Probe Osiris-Rex 'Kisses' Asteroid Bennu After Four-Year Long Historic Mission

News 18  

After a four-year journey, NASA’s robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched down on asteroid Bennu’s boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday to collect rock and dust samples in a precision operation 200 million miles from Earth. “We think we actually might be coming back with a baby picture of what the solar system was like, of what our chemistry was like, billions of …

NASA asteroid mission: New images show historic landing and sample collection on Bennu
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA asteroid mission: New images show historic landing and sample collection on Bennu

CNN  

CNN — New images taken by the OSIRIS-REx mission show the historic first touchdown of a NASA spacecraft on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona This drawing shows an artist's concept of what it will look like when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touches asteroid Bennu with its robot arm to grab a sample of the asteroid. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona …

Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe collects rock sample from asteroid Bennu in historic mission
4 years, 2 months ago

Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe collects rock sample from asteroid Bennu in historic mission

India Today  

Nasa’s robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched down on the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday to collect rock and dust samples almost 330 million kilometres from the Earth. Speaking to news agency AFP, Nasa scientist Michelle Thaller said: “We think we actually might be coming back with a baby picture of what the solar system was like, of what …

NASA mission successfully touched down on asteroid Bennu
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA mission successfully touched down on asteroid Bennu

CNN  

CNN — After orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Bennu for nearly two years, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touched down and reached out its robotic arm to collect a sample from the asteroid’s surface on Tuesday. “The fact that we safely and successfully touched the surface of Bennu, in addition to all the other milestones this mission has already achieved, is a …

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