University of Arizona mission to grab a sample of an asteroid and bring it to Earth is set to land in September. UA Lunar and Planetary Sciences is preparing to examine Osiris Rex probe sends back.
The University of Arizona took the lead in a mission to grab a sample of an asteroidand bring it to Earth for analysis. That sample is set to land in September. Now the lab at UA Lunar and Planetary Sciences is preparing to examine what the Osiris Rex probe sends back.
Now the challenge is to bring the samples safely through the Earth’s atmosphere to a soft landing in Utah. The analysis will run so deep it requires electron microscopes able to view samples as small as a single atom. He says other work at the lab is an example. Scientists are analyzing moon rocks Apollo astronauts collected more than fifty years ago but they’re doing it with tools much more powerful than NASA had when the rocks first came to Earth.
University of Arizona designed and led the Osiris Rex mission. The spacecraft is on a nearly seven year round trip to grab a sample of the asteroid Bennu. The sample grab worked so well the probe collected much more than predicted. The secrets Bennu may share are no less than clues to how the solar system—and even life– formed. Researchers already know Bennu holds a lot of carbon—and carbon is an essential for any life we know about.He says, “We don’t expect to find organisms of any kind in the sample but the building blocks, the organic building blocks that may have led to life, we may in fact be looking at those.”
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