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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx has begun to pay dividends as the space agency releases the first results of the sample return mission from the asteroid Bennu, showing the presence of a high carbon content and ...

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 ...