NASA has started the process of opening and removing the asteroid samples from a canister OSIRIS-REx for the first time in more than seven years. Launched in 2016, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and collected samples from the near-Earth asteroid's surface. ANU Astrophysichist and Cosmologist Brad Tucker has discussed with Sky News Australia OSIRIS-Rex and what researchers could find from the sample it brought back. “We saw these samples land early Monday morning our time and now there has been essentially this process of unveiling them,” he told Sky News Australia. “Because the way it worked is the touch and go system … it acted almost like an air filter on a car, it sucked up and contained all these samples. “That was sealed into a larger container which is kind of what people saw land on Monday morning descending to earth. The canister mainly contained samples of dust, pebbles and rock from the asteroid Bennu, Mr Tucker said. The materials found in OSIRIS-REx spacecraft are set to be dived up for study among space agencies and scientific institutions worldwide.
NASA has started the process of opening and removing the asteroid samples from a canister OSIRIS-REx for the first time in more than seven years.
ANU Astrophysichist and Cosmologist Brad Tucker has discussed with Sky News Australia OSIRIS-Rex and what researchers could find from the sample it brought back. “Because the way it worked is the touch and go system … it acted almost like an air filter on a car, it sucked up and contained all these samples.
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