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 Bennu and then dropped them off sealed in a capsule during a flyby of Earth last month. …
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'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 …
