The OSIRIS-REx press event begins today (Aug. 30) at 5 p.m. ET.
, kicking off an ambitious mission to explore Bennu, a potentially hazardous asteroid about 1,650 feet wide.
The mission's full name reveals the breadth of its goals and tasks:"Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer." The"origins" part, for example, refers to Bennu's status as a primitive, carbon-rich asteroid, the type that may have seededwith the building blocks of life long ago through impacts.
And"security" is a nod to Bennu's potentially hazardous nature: Learning more about this space rock could inform our efforts toRELATED STORIES:
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