2023-09-24 09:15:17
New York (DPA) Published on: Sunday, September 24, 2023 – 12:15 PM | Last updated: Sunday, September 24, 2023 – 12:15 PM The “OSIRIS-REx” space probe, affiliated with the American Space Agency (NASA), is scheduled today, Sunday, to drop a capsule containing samples from an asteroid over the desert of the American state of Utah, in An incident carried out by the US Space Agency for the first time. According to NASA estimates, the capsule contains regarding 250 grams of debris that was collected from the “Bennu” asteroid regarding three years ago. The probe is expected to launch the capsule at an altitude of regarding 102,000 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. The capsule, protected by a heat shield, is expected to enter the Earth’s atmosphere at regarding 1442 GMT, and with the help of parachutes, to slow down the speed of its descent, then it will land following regarding 13 minutes. Other. NASA is targeting a landing zone measuring 58 by 14 kilometers.
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