First look at samples from asteroid Bennu suggests space rock could even be ‘a fragment of an ancient ocean world’
Scientists are now inspecting hooked, bagged and tagged bits and pieces of the asteroid Bennu, the cosmic mother lode provided by NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer mission. Known in acronym astro-speak as OSIRIS-REx, that seven-year journey brought the goods home via a sample return bus that came to a … Read more