OSIRIS-REx's precious cargo will touch down in the Utah desert on Sept. 24.
, on a mission to study and snag samples from Bennu, a potentially dangerous asteroid about 1,650 feet wide.
The spacecraft arrived at Bennu in December 2018. It then eyed the asteroid up close for nearly two years, taking the rock's measure and looking for good places at which to swoop in and grab a sample.
"The good news was, because of that really soft surface, we collected an enormous amount of material," he added. That material is now winging its way to Earth aboard OSIRIS-REx, whose name is short for"Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer." The mission team has been practicing for its arrival for a while now, conducting a series of tests this spring and summer. Wednesday's capsule recovery is part of the last major practice run, NASA officials said.
After the capsule touches down, it will be transported to a clean room on the Utah military range, where it will processed. The Bennu material will then be sent to NASA'sOver the coming months and years, some of this asteroid material will be sent to scientists around the world, who will study it for clues about how ourResearchers will also look for evidence of organic molecules, the carbon-containing building blocks of life.
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