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Project Asteroid: Mapping Bennu
In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...
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‘Untouched by Earth’: Asteroid Bennu’s salts may hold clue to a billion-year-old puzzle
Bennu was shaped by violent space events. Its rubble-pile structure holds materials from the solar system’s earliest moments. Curtin’s state-of-the-art instruments validated extraterrestrial ...
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Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx...Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx...
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.
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Brine From Asteroid Bennu Reveals Conditions Suitable For Life In Early Solar System
“Bennu contains many precursors to the building ... Comparing the sample return to meteorites in our Collection, using state-of-the-art analytical facilities here in the Museum, is invaluable ...
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The asteroid NASA just landed on turns out to be hollow, with a large 'void' at its center. It may be spinning itself to death.
Your browser does not support the video element. The asteroid Bennu just keeps getting more bizarre. When NASA decided to send a probe to land on a space rock and ...