A NASA capsule landed this Sunday in the Utah desert, after a seven-year space journey, with rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu, which promises to provide unique information about the formation of the solar system.
This is the first time that NASA, the United States space agency, has managed to bring samples of an asteroid to Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency managed to recover asteroid remains in 2020, but it was a minimal amount.
This NASA mission, called “Osiris-Rex”, hopes to have collected 250 grams of the asteroid Bennu, although what it contains will only be known for sure when the capsule is opened on September 26, the agency’s scientists explained in a wheel. of press. North American space, cited by the EFE news agency.
Source: TSF
