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(NASA/CSA) This map, along with concentrated scans of very specific regions of Bennu, would be crucial during OSIRIS-REx's most challenging and dangerous maneuver — touching the surface of the ...

OSIRIS-REx stands to provide a wealth of insight into Bennu’s history, and perhaps help scientists better understand the origins of water and life on Earth. Guided by a digital map, OSIRIS-REx ...

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Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid that orbits as ... asteroid return mission because it contributed an instrument used to map the asteroid in order to collect the sample. Chris Herd, a professor ...

mapping each grain of material from Bennu. Each millimeter-sized grain takes about a month to map, McCoy said, because it "probably realistically has at least 10,000 mineral grains in it ...

This energy dispersive spectrometry map of an unprepared grain of Bennu’s regolith shows the placement of briny salt atop clay materials. Phosphorus is shown in green, calcium in red ...

SALT LAKE CITY — After examining just 0.06% of a 120-gram material sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu — which returned to Earth in Utah's west desert in September 2023 — a group of ...

The samples from Bennu were gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ... of specific chemical bonds at the nanometer scale and map out the different chemicals found in the asteroid. The science team ...

The samples from Bennu were gathered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ... of specific chemical bonds at the nanometer scale and map out the different chemicals found in the asteroid. The science team ...