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When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample of near-Earth asteroid Bennu, it revealed surprising details about Bennu’s loosely packed surface. The spacecraft’s arm sank almost half a metre into the asteroid, far deeper than expected, confirming that Bennu’s surface is incredibly weak. 🪨 During the event, OSIRIS-REx collected a handful of material and kicked up roughly six tons of loose rock. It will return its sample of Bennu to Earth in September 2023. Thanks to its contribution to the m
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“This is the kind of finding you hope you’re going to make on a mission.” – Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites and lead author on a new paper out today. New analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu reveals that evaporating water left a briny broth where the elemental ingredients of life intermingled to create more complex structures like salts and minerals. Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, was home to pockets of liquid water. This water evaporated and left beh
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Throughout our respective orbits, Bennu is sometimes more than 200 million miles away from Earth and sometimes as close as 278,867 miles. Its orbit brings it close to us about every six years. #ToBennuAndBack https://go.nasa.gov/2FKURLf | NASA Earth
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183K views · 2.4K shares | Our first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will launch Thursday to venture to near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The mission seeks to discover clues about the unique resources asteroids hold, processes that affect their orbital paths, and the origins of life in the solar system. | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook
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79K views · 5.6K reactions | After nearly five years in space, NASA Solar System Exploration's #OSIRISREx mission is heading to Earth with a sample of rocks and dust from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid! 朗 Check out how its mission #ToBennuAndBack exceeded all expectations: https://go.nasa.gov/33zjPoZ | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook
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