Bennu’s Largest Asteroid Sample: NASA’s Groundbreaking Mission Reveals Clues to Solar System Origins

2023-10-11 09:54:00
(Central News Agency, Houston, 11th Comprehensive Foreign Report) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is scheduled to release today the first batch of photos of the largest asteroid sample ever collected. Scientists hope that the results of the sample study will provide information about the earliest days of the solar system and the origin of life. clues. Agence France-Presse reported that the Osiris-Rex mission collected rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu in 2020. The space capsule containing precious samples successfully returned to Earth more than two weeks ago and landed in the United States. Utah desert. Samples are carefully analyzed in a specialized sterile room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. NASA will hold a live press conference at 11 a.m. Eastern Time (11 p.m. Taiwan time) to share photos and preliminary scientific analysis. Osiris is not the first mission to bring back samples from asteroids for research. Japan has successfully completed similar missions twice, bringing back some space gravel in 2010 and 2020. But the key difference is sample size. The sample brought back by Osiris is about 250 grams, which is much more than the 5.4 grams of the Japanese detector Hayabusa 2. NASA chose to sample from Bennu because it is believed to be rich in organic compounds. (Translator: Lu Yingzi/ : Chen Yuting) 1121011 Bennu’s largest asteroid sample in history is successfully returned to Earth, the culmination of Osiris’ 7-year voyage[影]The text, pictures, and videos on this website of the Central News Agency’s “First-hand News” app may not be reproduced, publicly broadcast, or publicly transmitted and used without authorization.
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