The asteroid sample is rich in life’s building blocks
NASA has shared its first glimpse of the asteroid Bennu’s material, which it collected last year with the aid of the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx. It contains organic material and iron-rich minerals, which are believed to have come from early Earth. Bennu is an asteroid about the size of a football field, about 75 million kilometres away from Earth.
In this first look at NASA’s OSIRIS-REx capsule, you can see how it looks back in time
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has revealed that it found rare Metals in asteroid Bennu’s outer sample canister. NASA said that Bennu’s materials include water in hydrated clay minerals and carbon and organic molecule. The analysis done by NASA shows that they contain water in hydrated clay minerals, as well as carbon and organic molecule.
This weekend is the last chance for NASA to bring home asteroids
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which will return asteroid rock samples to Earth, is on track to reach the target on October 2, the space agency has announced. The mission will collect samples from an asteroid nicknamed ‘Asteroid X’ that is roughly the size of a medium-sized sedan. NASA’s Psyche mission will launch in October to another asteroid called ‘Phosphorus’.