Tag: OSIRIS-Rex
NASA shares updates on recently recovered 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample
Asteroid Bennu analysis reveals sample contains water & carbon – which together could indicate the building blocks of life on Earth may be found in the rock
After traveling billions of miles, capsule containing NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample has landed safely on Earth
… and now it’s been secured in a Clean Room
SETI Institute awarded NASA contract to support ‘Planetary Protection’
Good to know someone is in charge of planetary protection and that Seti also has a sense of humor regarding the search for extraterrestrial life . . .
What we now know about near-Earth asteroid ‘Bennu’
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu, only slightly wider than the height of the Empire State Building, may contain unaltered material from the very beginning of our solar system.
