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.
NASA collected a sample from a asteroid for the first time
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully landed on asteroid Bennu after a 6.4-year journey. It landed on the asteroid, which is about 90 million km from Earth, to sample and return the asteroid’s surface pebbles. If found to be intact, that would be the biggest haul of extraterrestrial material carried back by any nation on Earth since Apollo astronauts carried pieces of the moon home.