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What would happen if the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu smashed into Earth in 2182?
Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission ... and then brought that sample back to Earth for a landing in the Utah desert in September 2023. While the odds of Bennu ...
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NASA Chooses Asteroid Landing Zone for OSIRIS-REx Probe
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Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx...Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx...
OSIRIS-REx was designed to keep the samples pure and untouched by Earth, with procedures to inject the sample return capsule with nitrogen as soon as possible after its landing. Furthermore ...
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Was Nearly Swallowed by Asteroid Bennu
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Animation – Philae landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
about 180 images were acquired by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera (OSIRIS-NAC) between 5 August and 3 September 2014. The landing trajectory corresponds with plans made by ESA. The approximately ...