Molto Bennu
But all's well that ends well. NASA had intended to collect between 60 grams and 1 kilogram of asteroid dirt and it looks like it retrieved around 250 grams of Bennu-rock – so, job well done.and taken to a Utah-based clean room. In about a day it will be sent to Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas for opening, curation and scientific analysis.
Snead explained that research on the samples will continue for decades – and that some of the instruments that will help make sense of the material don't exist yet. "Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid," added Maritza Montoya, small particles processor and coworker of Snead."It's something that has the organic building blocks, and it could potentially have these organic building blocks that started life here on Earth as well."
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