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NASA cracks open its first sample from an asteroid, foiling two sticky screws
NASA returned its first sample of an asteroid to Earth last year, landing a sample collected from asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert in September. Researchers were able to extract 70 grams of ...
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How NASA's asteroid sample survived despite a parachute flop
Before NASA recovered a capsule holding bits of space rock from the desert, the landing sequence for the ... Once scientists are done processing the asteroid sample, engineers will be able to ...
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Asteroid sample coming to NASA
The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid ... Sunday’s landing concludes a 4 billion ...
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NASA spacecraft delivering biggest sample yet from an asteroid
Sunday's landing ... into the Utah desert and shattered, compromising the samples. Two years later, a U.S. capsule with comet dust landed intact. Japan’s first asteroid sample mission returned ...
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Asteroid sample on way to Earth may help answer Big Bang questions
Material from an asteroid will "come screaming into ... Earth's atmosphere before drifting to the ground in the Utah desert by parachute. The sample "promises to inform the most profound of ...
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NASA's asteroid-blasting spacecraft has stored over 2 pounds of alien dust and rock to bring back to Earth
To collect its asteroid sample ... Within days of the sample's landing in Utah, the team hopes to start analyzing it at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. NASA will also preserve ...