Checking in with the OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return team and scientists from SPACEWATCH. We visit the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory to learn about recent missions to visit ...

The sample, collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived on Earth in a capsule on September 24, dropping from the ...

A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, shown in microscope images. The top-left pane shows a dark Bennu particle, about a millimeter long, with an ...

A scanning electron microscope view of the minerals in the Bennu sample; fig. ... OSIRIS-REx recovered an estimated 250 grams of Bennu material, ...

OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and traveled 200 million miles (320 million kilometers) to reach Bennu. ... which they examined under a scanning electron microscope.

Dante Lauretta, the planetary scientist who led the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a handful of space dust, ... We had a student look at one grain under an electron microscope, ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx dropped off the Bennu asteroid sample last month. Scientists discovered the rocky surface contains carbon and evidence of water. ... A scanning electron microscope, infrared, ...

This figure illustrates key molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, which were delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023.

A focused-ion-beam scanning-electron microscope, capable of drilling a hole in a piece of dust, provided a nanoscopic look at the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx.(Photo: Mari Cleven/UA Office of ...

When OSIRIS-REx returns its asteroid samples to Earth Sept. 24, ... This room contains the transmission electron microscope, seen on the left, ...

Scientists finally began opening the rock sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx captured a treasure trove of material from the solar system’s earliest days.

The sample, collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived on Earth in a capsule on September 24, dropping from the ...