2023-09-28 10:48:12
Astrophysicists from NASA’s Lyndon Johnson Space Center have opened the outer cover of the OSIRIS-REx capsule, which carried samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu to Earth.
The OSIRIS-REx probe traveled to the asteroid Bennu in September 2016 and entered its orbit in December 2018. The next two years were spent remotely studying the asteroid and preparing for the soil collection operation, which was successfully carried out in October 2020.
On September 24, a capsule with a soil sample landed in the desert at a military training ground in Utah. The probe itself went to the asteroid (99942) Apophis, which is considered potentially dangerous for the Earth and will approach the planet on April 13, 2029.
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