Nasa Asteroid Sample return

[ad_1] NASA has been making efforts to track and study asteroids to remove uncertainties about their close approaches with Earth and know about any potential impacts. Through its various advanced instruments, NASA revealed that a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) called Bennu has a 1/2700 chance of impacting Earth between 2175 and 2195. In efforts to study this space rock, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) on September 8, 2016. The mission involved travelling to the asteroid, landing on its surface, collecting dust and rock samples, and returning them to Earth. The mission is now over as the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently released the sample container over Earth, after which it underwent a “nitroge...

[ad_1] NASA's first asteroid sample capsule retrieval attempt through the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has started the journey to earth. NASA's spacecraft that will return an asteroid sample to Earth is finally homeward bound. The asteroid sample will be returned to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security -Regolith Explorer) next year in 2023. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft started its journey in 2021, and now it is expected to return a sample of the asteroid 'Bennu' on September 24, 2023. As reported by Phys.org, OSIRIS-REx, fired its thrusters for 30 seconds on Sept. 21. To ensure the safe delivery of the capsule containing the Bennu sample to earth's atmosphere, Mike Moreau, OSIRIS-REx deputy project manager at NASA's Goddard Space F...

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