Check out this photo of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector an asteroid Bennu.
Here’s the latest from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that has dumped pieces of Bennu to Earth.
“We definitely have hydrated, organic-rich remnants from the early solar system, which is exactly what we were hoping when we first conceived this mission almost 20 years ago,” Dante Lauretta, the mission’s principal investigator, said at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference being held this week in California and online. “I fully expect the cosmochemistry community is going to go to town on this.”
Initial findings using spectroscopy, a scientific technique that reveals a material’s makeup by studying how it reflects different wavelengths of light, show a dominant spectral signature in blue. There’s plenty to learn from this exciting update, so check out the full story by clicking the link below.
