Nasa’s OSIRIS-REx Unlocks Solar System’s Time Capsule
“This marks the US’s first sample return mission of its kind and will open a time capsule to the beginnings of our solar system,” Nasa mentioned in a tweet on Sunday, After the pattern capsule touched down within the Utah take a look at and coaching vary. The spaceship, which travelled 1.2 billion miles throughout area, was deliberate to land safely on a floor within the Utah desert.
A Mission from Cape Canaveral to Bennu’s Bounty
OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) was despatched to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu on September 8, 2016, from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Base. The samples that have been gathered weigh greater than 250 grammes and are in excellent form. Scientists anticipate that these supplies will give them necessary details about the formation of our photo voltaic system. The mission will assist in figuring out the long-term risks of Bennu-type near-Earth asteroids colliding with Earth.
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