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Scientists and space agency leaders took part in Wednesday’s big reveal at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
A live feed captures the capsule containing an asteroid sample, charred from entering the earth’s atmosphere, as it is delivered to a temporary clean room at Dugway Proving Grounds on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the capsule following a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back.
“That is how we think water got to the Earth,” he said. “Minerals like we’re seeing from Bennu landed on Earth 4 billion years ago to 4.5 billion years ago, making our world habitable.” That’s why scientists did not have a precise measurement of what was coming back; they estimated 250 grams, or about a cupful, ahead of the Sept. 24 landing in the Utah desert. They won’t have a good count until the container is opened, within two weeks or so.
After the spacecraft delivered its Bennu sample to Earth last month, the mission was renamed OSIRIS-APEX, for Apophis Explorer. Once arriving at its destination, the spacecraft will use its visual sensors to study Apophis, just as it did Bennu.
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