The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx touched down in Utah on 24 September Keegan Barber/UPI/Shutterstock
NASA has successfully collected samples from the asteroid Bennu, after a capsule containing around 250 grams of the space rock in the desert near Salt Lake City, Utah on Sunday. Å®ÉúСÊÓƵs hope that Bennu, which is older than Earth, could help explain how the solar system formed.
The capsule has been making its way home since 2020, when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft extracted samples from the asteroid. The final, riskiest part of the mission involved a controlled freefall through Earth’s atmosphere,…
