2023-09-26 06:00:03
NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission made history by bringing back to Earth the largest asteroid sample ever collected. This event might transform our understanding of the formation of the Solar System and make the science of life on Earth clearer.
The Osiris-Rex mission capsule is seen shortly following landing in the desert on September 24, 2023 at Utah Test and Training. Tidy.
The capsule landed in the state of Utah in the United States, ending a seven-year space journey. Dante Lauretta, the mission’s principal investigator, expressed his emotion when he learned that the capsule’s main parachute had deployed safely. “That was the moment I knew we had come home,” Dante Lauretta said at a news conference.
The 6.21 billion mile journey marks the first U.S. mission of its kind. Bill Nelson (Clarence William Nelson known as Bill Nelson (born September 29, 1942) is a man…), the head of NASA, also welcomed this achievement, indicating that asteroid dust (An asteroid is a celestial object whose dimensions vary by a few dozen…) would offer “an extraordinary insight into the origins of our Solar System (The solar system is a planetary system made up of a star, the…)”.
Launched in 2016, the probe landed on the asteroid Bennu four years later and collected around 250 grams of dust from its rocky surface. Even this small amount, according to NASA, might “help us better understand the types of asteroids that might threaten Earth.” NASA scientist Amy Simon pointed out that this sample (generally speaking, a sample is a small quantity of matter, information, or…) is the most important ever reported from the lunar rocks of the Apollo mission.
Scientists collect data shortly following NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission’s sample return capsule lands in Dugway, Utah.
The landing was a complex operation. In the last 13 minutes of the journey, the capsule entered the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed greater than 43,000 km/h. h, exponent (Exponent can mean:) the capsule at temperatures up to 2,760 degrees Celsius.
After landing, the capsule was transported by helicopter to a nearby clean room. The probe, for its part, changed trajectory to head towards another asteroid. Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Sciences Division, said the majority of the sample would be retained for future studies. generations.
This image, taken by NASA’s Osiris-Rex probe in December 2018, shows the asteroid Bennu.
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