Scientists begin their analysis of the dusty fragments brought back from the Bennu space rock.
The UK scientist was in a select group to put first eyes and instruments on the rocky samples that have just been brought back from asteroid Bennu.
The sample canister which landed in the Utah desert on 24 September has been opened but the inner chamber used by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft to store the asteroid fragments has yet to be fully emptied of its contents and weighed. "When they took the lid off the sample canister, it just revealed this black powder everywhere. It was incredible; it was so exciting," Dr King recalled.
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft picked up the Bennu materials in October 2020, using a daring manoeuvre to approach and then "high-five" the asteroid - an operation performed while 330 million km from Earth.
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