The sample, collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived on Earth in a capsule on September 24, dropping from the ...

“The electron microscopes were fired up and ready” by September 27, Lauretta said in a news conference. ... OSIRIS-REx recovered an estimated 250 grams of Bennu material, ...

OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and traveled 200 million miles (320 million kilometers) to reach Bennu. ... which they examined under a scanning electron microscope.

UA Lunar and Planetary Sciences is preparing to examine Osiris Rex probe sends back. ... The analysis will run so deep it requires electron microscopes able to view samples as small as a single atom.

NASA reveals the first images of the asteroid material collected during the "picture-perfect" OSIRIS-REx mission led by ... he showed off an electron microscope image of a dust grain speckled with ...

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a NASA spacecraft from an asteroid. In it, they've found new clues about the ingredients for life that were present in the early ...

Scanning electron microscope image of sodium carbonate, also known commonly as soda ash, ... Bennu, which were delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023.

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 ash.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life were astonishingly widespread in the early solar system ...

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission, short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security Regolith Explorer, launched in 2016.The robotic spacecraft completed its 4 ...

The sample, collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived on Earth in a capsule on September 24, dropping from the ...