NASA finally opens OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample canister after freeing stuck lid. News. By John Loeffler published 23 January 2024 NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample capsule begins to reveal its secrets.

Scientists have discovered an abundance of material after opening the OSIRIS-REx canister containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu, which could offer key insights into the origins of ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission team removed the initial lid of the sample canister, which was placed inside a glovebox to keep out contaminants, on Tuesday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the ...

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert on Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range.

In October 2020, OSIRIS-REx landed on near-Earth asteroid Bennu and snagged a sample from its surface.Scientists expected to find extra bits of the asteroid in the canister outside the TAGSAM, an ...

To capture these samples, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approached asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and extended an arm containing the canister (called TAGSAM, or the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition ...

The capsule from NASA's Osiris-Rex mission seen after parachuting from space down to the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample inside it was collected from the asteroid ...

Scientists removed the outer lid of OSIRIS-REx's sample canister on Tuesday (Sept. 26). But a full reveal of the mission's asteroid sample is still two weeks away.

The canister is expected to be opened late Monday or on Tuesday at the earliest, said Nicole Lunning, NASA’s lead curator for the Osiris-REx sample. The sample canister is designed to survive ...

Scientists have discovered an abundance of material after opening the OSIRIS-REx canister containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu, which could offer key insights into the origins of ...