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NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex

Kumari Sonali

NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex:

A NASA space capsule carrying the largest sample ever collected from an asteroid landed on Utah’s Test and Training Range.

  • The capsule was released from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which had been in space for seven years and collected the sample from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists will use this sample to learn more about the origins of the solar system.
  • The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, renamed OSIRIS-APEX (OSIRIS-Apophis Explorer), did not return to Earth’s surface.
  • Instead, it separated from the sample return capsule and will continue its mission to study another near-Earth asteroid named Apophis when it comes close to Earth in 2029.

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