After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT ( 10:52 a.m.
Within an hour and a half, the capsule was transported by helicopter to a temporary clean room set up in a hangar on the training range, where it now is connected to a continuous flow of nitrogen.
BEYOND LOCAL: NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth - Bradford News
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid.
NASA's plan to point a massive telescope at America's two upcoming solar eclipses | Space
During the upcoming annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14 a 112-foot (34-meter) retired NASA radio telescope will be pointed at the sun to study what happens when sunspots are covered by the moon.
Part of the Solar Patrol citizen science program , it's a dry run for an experiment that will peak on April 8 next year during a total solar eclipse in the U.S.
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