NASA brings samples of space asteroids to Earth, they are 4.5 billion years old! : Okezone techno

NASA samples successfully sent by asteroid in space on earth Sunday (9/24/2023). Sampling an asteroid estimated to be 4.5 billion years old is also the initial goal of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission, first launched in 2016.

Reported by the site The limitOn Tuesday (9/26/2023) the asteroid sample successfully transported in the OSIRIS-REx mission came from one of the asteroids surrounding the Earth called Bennu.

At a speed of 47,000 miles per hour, the capsule containing the asteroid samples successfully landed at the Utah Department of Defense Test and Training Range at 10:52 a.m. local time.

About 250 grams of collected Bennu asteroid samples will then be taken to a special facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for further research related to the formation of the Solar System.

“NASA invests in small-body missions like OSIRIS-REx to investigate the large population of asteroids in our solar system that can give us clues about how the solar system formed and evolved,” said Melissa Morris, program manager OSIRIS-REx.

In this regard, scientists explain the importance of asteroid samples, one of which is useful for researching the possibility of the existence of the basic elements of life: organic compounds on Earth transported by asteroids millions to billions of years ago.

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