Asteroid Bennu broke away from a small ocean planet — scientists analyze samples
On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a capsule with carbon regolith to Earth, collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The samples were obtained after the probe made a seven-year journey through the solar system.
$1.2 billion investment, almost 10 years and 121 g of «prey» – the result of the mission to the asteroid Bennu
NASA has released the total mass of the Bennu asteroid sample that was delivered to Earth last fall. Thus, the weight of the «prey» is 121.6 g.
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