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Acoustic Sensors Detect Spacecraft's Sample Return Capsule Plummeting Into Earth's Atmosphere
A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of ...
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Fiber Optic Network Spots Spacecraft's Return to Earth
Now scientists reveal they used kilometers of fiber optics to analyze shockwaves from a NASA spacecraft returning to Earth, ...
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Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx...Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx...
The spacecraft left Bennu for Earth on May 10, 2021. On Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule touched down safely in the Utah desert at Dugway Proving Ground, bringing back the 120 ...
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NASA's Bennu asteroid sample reveals life's ingredients in early solar system
FILE PHOTO: The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the ...
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NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft
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 ...
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Asteroid the Size of Empire State Building Could Hit Earth in Future, NASA Says
To successfully deliver the rock sample, spacecraft operators will “need to ensure OSIRIS-REx travels at the right speed and direction to release the sample capsule into the atmosphere ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...
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How NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission may help us understand the origins of life on Earth
It wouldn't have been limited to just Earth. Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target.
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Asteroid Bennu samples represent 'building blocks' for life — NASA
"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook ... "Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding ...
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Acoustic Sensors Detect Spacecraft's Sample Return Capsule Plummeting Into Earth's Atmosphere
In late September 2023, the samples from OSIRIS-REx were delivered back to Earth inside a capsule. Whilst NASA tracked and retrieved the sample return capsule, ready to analyze the samples ...