The Queen guitarist sends a message of support to the team he helped by identifying where Osiris-Rex could grab a sample from the asteroid.
Read more:The rocker particularly praised his"dear friend" Dante Lauretta, who he created the book Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid with, which is a 3D atlas of the asteroid.
The sample is the US space agency's first mission to collect a sample from an asteroid and the first by any agency since 2020.This image shows the capsule released by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft lying on the surface after landing to Earth A quarter of the sample will be given to a group of more than 200 people from 38 globally distributed institutions, including a team of scientists from the University of Manchester and the Natural History Museum.
Asteroid Bennu is a 4.5-billion-year-old remnant of our early solar system and scientists believe it can help shed light on how planets formed and evolved. Experts say the carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid serves as a time capsule from the earliest history of the solar system.
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