Canadian planetary scientists and their colleagues receive a portion of asteroid Bennu for scientific analysis as part of their participation in the NASA-led OSIRIS-REx mission.
A view of eight sample trays containing the final material from asteroid Bennu . The dust and rocks were poured into the trays from the top plate of the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) head. It’s barely a teaspoon’s worth of black dirt – 4.864 grams to be exact – but for Canadian planetary scientists and their colleagues it adds up to a world of possibilities.
On Thursday, officials revealed the precise size of the portion of the asteroid Bennu that has been designated for Canada as part of the country’s participation in OSIRIS-REx, a NASA-led mission to capture and return material from the distant body for scientific analysis. As part of its flight plan, the spacecraft briefly made contact with the asteroid’s gravelly surface back in October, 2020. A sealed capsule with the material it collected then was later sent to Earth, arriving at a landing site in Utah last September. However, once the capsule was transported to the Johnson Space Center in Houston Tex., for examination, scientists ran into a sna
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