Jakarta –
For the first time, samples of asteroids from outer space brought to Earth by will be exhibited at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on October 11.
NASA will lead a press conference held at 11.00 WIB local time, and will be broadcast live on NASA Television, the NASA application, and on the NASA website.
During the event, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team of scientists will discuss the first analysis of the sample, which is scheduled to land on Sunday, September 24, in the Utah Desert.
Once the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft enters Earth’s atmosphere and lands safely, scientists from NASA will collect rocks and dust taken from Asteroid Bennu in a capsule, and take the samples to NASA’s Johnson for investigation at the Pure Curation Facility.
Participants in the press conference included:
– Bill Nelson, Administrator NASA
– Francis McCubbin, Vice Chair of OSIRIS-REx Curation at Johnson NASA
– Daniel Glavin, OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Leader, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.
– Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator, University of Arizona, Tucson.
This event is limited to visitors. US and international media interested in attending must register in advance. For international media, the registration deadline is Friday, 18.00 September 29.
The landing of OSIRIS-REx at the Utah Department of Defense Test and Training site near Dugway, Utah, on September 24, will mark the end of a 7-year adventure in exploring the asteroid Bennu, collecting samples from its surface, and sending them to Earth.
The next steps of this mission, including curation and research, will begin once the OSIRIS-REx sample capsule arrives on Monday, September 25. The curation team will dismantle the sample containers to extract the majority of the samples. After that, scientists will run a first-look analysis of the samples. The results will be discussed for the first time on October 11.
NASA is building the new OSIRIS-REx Sample Curation Laboratory, comprised of curators from the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Team who will manage sample distribution to scientists around the world over the next few years.
These scientists want to learn more about how planets and our Solar System formed, as well as the organic origins that created life on Earth.
Some samples will be saved for future research that will take advantage of technological developments over the years.
Johnson holds the world’s largest collection of astromaterials from the Solar System, including samples from asteroids, comets, Mars, the Moon, the Sun, and dust from other stars.
*This article was written by Khalisha Fitri, a participant in the Merdeka Campus Certified Internship Program at detikcom.
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2023-09-17 12:11:50
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