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China's Tianwen-2 Mission Lifts Off Successfully To Explore Asteroid, Collect Samples
Tianwen-2 has an approach similar to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped them to Earth in September 2023. This mission was then redesigned as OSIRIS-APEX to study the asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029.
Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...
The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. The findings do not show ...
Most of the $1 billion mission's cache has been set aside for future analysis. Scientists stress more testing is needed to better understand the Bennu samples, as well as more asteroid and comet ...
Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks over Revelstoke. Our research team has ...
Researcher Jason Dworkin holds a vial of asteroid Bennu sample from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, delivered to Earth in 2023. © NASA/James Tralie Asteroid Bennu not ...
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