Scientists said the footage showing the OSIRIS-REx space mission making "a good mess" on the asteroid Bennu, more than 200 million miles away, is a clear sign of success.

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OSIRIS-REx brought the samples back to Earth. The samples from Bennu came from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer ...

Scanning electron microscope images of trona found in samples of the asteroid Bennu returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Trona is water-bearing sodium carbonate, also known commonly as soda ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the ... (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith ... High resolution photos of ...

NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx reached asteroid Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018. After surveying Bennu, NASA plans to collect samples and send them back to Earth.

Asteroid Bennu is a Near-Earth Object (sometimes called an NEO) that orbits around the Sun every 436.6 days and comes within a close distance of 0.002 AU from Earth every six years.

The images immediately before and after OSIRIS REx’s contact with Bennu. They show that in the approximately 1 second between the shots, the spacecraft’s sampler head disturbed an area nearly ...

NASA has shared a high-resolution image of the asteroid Bennu sample inside the Touch-and-Go-Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), which remained closed because of stuck fasteners until last week.

Instantly renamed OSIRIS-APEX, it fired its thrusters and set off on course for the asteroid Apophis, where it will orbit and collect images of its surface. The Bennu sample capsule hurtled toward ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected Dec. 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 kilometers). The image was obtained at a ...

Last month, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft garnered global attention as it successfully delivered a cache of asteroid Bennu's regolith, unlocking a potential treasure trove of knowledge about the ...