Monday, October 2, 2023

NASA's first asteroid sample has landed, now secure in clean room - MyParisTexas

After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT ( 10:52 a.m.

Within an hour and a half, the capsule was transported by helicopter to a temporary clean room set up in a hangar on the training range, where it now is connected to a continuous flow of nitrogen.

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Publisher: MyParisTexas
Date: 2023-09-29T20:51:27 00:00
Author: MyParisTexas
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