A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil samples ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid has streaked through Earth's atmosphere and parachuted into the Utah desert. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-25/nasa-first-asteroid-samples-land-on-earth/102895696
In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 100,000 kilometres out.
The small capsule, containing samples from the asteroid Bennu, landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid.
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In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 100,000 kilometres out.
The small capsule, containing samples from the asteroid Bennu, landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid.
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