Foreign news agencies report from Washington. United States on September 25 that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States (NASA) issued a statement that The Osiris-Rex probe lands in the middle of the desert. At the city of Dugway in the state of Utah, in the west of the country, at 10:52 a.m. local time on Sunday (9:52 p.m. in Thailand).
TOUCHDOWN! The #OSIRISREx sample capsule landed at the Utah Test and Training Range at 10:52am ET (1452 UTC) after a 3.86-billion mile journey. This marks the US’s first sample return mission of its kind and will open a time capsule to the beginnings of our solar system. pic.twitter.com/N8fun14Plt
— NASA (@NASA) September 24, 2023
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft The sample, weighing approximately 250 grams, was collected from a surface called “Nightingale” on the north pole of asteroid Bennu. The scientists hypothesized that Samples of material on Bennu may help clarify the matter. to the formation of the solar system The birth of all living things and oceans on earth
After a journey of nearly 3.9 billion miles, the #OSIRISREx asteroid sample return capsule is back on Earth. Teams perform the initial safety assessment—the first persons to come into contact with this hardware since it was on the other side of the solar system. pic.twitter.com/KVDWiovago
— NASA (@NASA) September 24, 2023
Incidentally, the Osiris-Rex ship Designed and produced by NASA Together with Lockheed Martin, it departed Earth on Sept. 8, 2016, to track asteroid Bennu. It has a diameter of approximately 500 meters and orbits more than 330 million kilometers away from Earth.
The mission was the first such success in NASA’s history. To send a probe to collect samples from an asteroid which parts of the Osiris-Rex ship Prepare to bring it back with you. considered the most Since the time of the Apollo exploration program And NASA also plans to send at least three more asteroid probes within this decade.
After this, NASA moved the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. with samples from asteroids To the Johnson Space Center for analysis NASA is scheduled to hold a press conference on this matter on October 11th.
Moreover, the United States is considered the second country in the world. which was able to successfully send a spacecraft to track the asteroid Following Japan, where the probe “Hayabusa 2” was able to land on the surface of the star “Ryugu” in September 2018 after tracking for nearly 4 years, then brought samples weighing approximately 5 grams back to Earth in 2020, but the NASA sample weighs about 50 times more, so it takes much longer to travel.
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