Citing foreign news agencies from Washington. United States On September 25, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) issued a statement that the Osiris-Rex probe was landing in the middle of the desert. And in Dugway, Utah, west of the country, at 10:52 a.m. local time on Sunday (9:52 p.m. Thai time).
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft The sample, which weighs about 250 grams, was collected from a surface called Nightingale at the north pole of the asteroid Bennu. Scientists hypothesized that samples of material found on Bennu might help clarify the matter. The formation of the solar system gave birth to all living organisms and oceans on Earth
Incidentally, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft designed and manufactured by NASA left Earth with Lockheed Martin on September 8, 2016 to track the asteroid Bennu. It has a diameter of about 500 meters and orbits more than 330 million kilometers from Earth.
The mission was the first success of its kind in NASA’s history. Sending a probe to collect samples from the asteroid What are the parts of the Osiris Rex ship? Prepare to bring it back with you. Considered the longest in the Apollo exploration program, NASA also plans to send at least three more asteroid probes during this decade.
Next, NASA transferred the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. With samples of asteroids to the Johnson Space Center for analysis, NASA is scheduled to hold a press conference about this matter on October 11.
Moreover, the United States is considered the second largest country in the world. Which successfully managed to send a spacecraft to track the asteroid after Japan, where the “Hayabusa 2” probe was able to land on the surface of the star “Ryugu” in September 2018 after tracking it for nearly 4 years, and then returned samples weighing about 5 grams to Earth in 2020. But NASA’s sample weighs about 50 times more, so it takes much longer to travel.
Image source: Agence France-Presse
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