Les voilà ! Les fameux grains collectés par la sonde OSIRIS-REx 🇺🇲 dont l'accès dans la capsule était rendu complexe par des vis récalcitrantes.
Le plus gros grain fait 1 cm. Notez la diversité de morphologie, de texture et de brillance. De la science à venir ! 🔬

#NASA #NASAJPL #asteroid #OSIRISREx #science #bennu #ToBennuAndBack

“This is the most-instrumented hypersonic re-entry in history”

Asteroid sampler’s hypersonic return thrilled scientists: here’s what they learnt.

✍️ by Alexandra Witze for Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03318-6

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Asteroid sampler’s hypersonic return thrilled scientists: here’s what they learnt

The re-entry of the OSIRIS-REx sample canister is the most closely observed of its type in history.

LC-EP19: OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule arrival on Earth – Live Coverage – Nemeth/Star Productions

LC-EP19: OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule arrival on Earth – Live Coverage – Nemeth/Star Productions

Don’t miss our Live Coverage of the arrival of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule on Earth. The OSIRIS-REx Mission collected samples from the Asteroid Bennu and supplied a capsule that returns these samples to Earth. The capsule will land in Utah.

Our live coverage will start Sunday, September 24th 2023 at 16:00 CEST
🌐 https://ticker.nemethstarproductions.eu/?page_id=1167
🐤 coming soon

#ToBennuAndBack #OSIRISREx #Bennu #AsteroidBennu #asteroid #Utah #NASA

LC-EP19: OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule arrival on Earth – Live Coverage – Nemeth/Star Productions

Don’t miss our Live Coverage of the arrival of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule on Earth. The OSIRIS-REx Mission collected samples from the Asteroid Bennu and supplied a capsule that returns these samples to Earth. The capsule will land in Utah.

Our live coverage will start Sunday, September 24th 2023 at 16:00 CEST
🌐 https://ticker.nemethstarproductions.eu/?page_id=1167
🐤 coming soon

#ToBennuAndBack #OSIRISREx #Bennu #AsteroidBennu #asteroid #Utah #NASA

LC-EP19: OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule arrival on Earth – Live Coverage – Nemeth/Star Productions

OSIRIS-REx may be ending. But
OSIRIS-APEx is just getting started.

QT NASA History Office @NASAhistory
2023 September 8

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's 7-year journey #ToBennuAndBack started #OTD in 2016!

The first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, on September 24 we will witness the thrilling finale of OSIRIS-REx's mission as the sample is returned to Earth!

After 7 years, the mission of OSIRIS-REx - to return the sample it collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth - will conclude in the Utah desert on September 24th, 2023 at 11am EDT.

Until then, here's NASA's video about it:

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#OSIRISREx #ToBennuAndBack

https://youtu.be/HCrwF4oBCvk

OSIRIS-REx & the Origin of Life

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Hey, Mastodonverse, remember NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission?

'Cause OSIRIS-REx is due to return a sample of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in the Utah desert one month from today at 11am EDT

#OSIRISREx #ToBennuAndBack

https://youtu.be/HCrwF4oBCvk

OSIRIS-REx & the Origin of Life

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