The fragments were from a world all their own—pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected and returned to Earth for analysis by the OSIRIS-REx ... A scanning electron microscope view of the minerals ...

The sample is nearly 5% carbon by weight, making it one of the highest concentrations of carbon to be studied in an asteroid, according to Dr. Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx project scientist at NASA ...

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from ... which they examined under a scanning electron microscope. This ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx has begun to pay dividends as ... Currently the samples are being subjected to a scanning electron microscope, infrared measurements, X-ray diffraction, and chemical element ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from ... barely visible grains of Bennu using the transmission electron microscope of the Schwiete Cosmochemistry Laboratory, set ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ... Scanning electron microscope image of sodium carbonate, also known ...

At long last, NASA’s curation scientists have revealed what OSIRIS-REx ferried back from an asteroid 100 million miles away. The seven-year mission scooped up a rock sample from Bennu in 2020 ...

Henry Brean Jul 29, 2023 Jul 29, 2023 Updated Sep 2, 2024 When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivers ... motioning to the transmission electron microscope behind him. “We think because (Bennu ...

Checking in with the OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return team and scientists ... so this is the lab where we have visible light microscopes and also an electron microscope where we can look at the sample ...

which I gave up doing a lot of during OSIRIS-REx. It’s very accessible for them to get involved. We can train students and have them on an electron microscope, looking at material from Bennu ...

When OSIRIS-REx was planned ... “Then we'll put it in an electron microscope, which will enable us to do some element mapping. So we'll see what elements are in there and that will tell us ...

OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and traveled 200 million miles (320 million kilometers) to reach Bennu. Once there, the spacecraft orbited the asteroid for nearly two years as flight ...