Saturday, September 23, 2023

NASA's Osiris-Rex to Deliver Asteroid Sample to Earth on Sunday - CNET

This illustration shows Osiris-Rex (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer) spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-And-Go Sample Arm Mechanism, or Tagsam. 

Some dust and other bits of a big asteroid named Bennu  are on the way to Earth.  NASA's Osiris-Rex  is winding down its mission more than seven years after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 

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