The sample could provide clues to how life on Earth formed.
OSIRIS-REx has already reached asteroid Bennu’s surface and scooped up a sample of it. It will now drop off the package on Earth.Michael Daly of York University's Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science, who headed a team that designed crucial parts of the spacecraft. "You could see fractures and details in the rocks.
"The rocks comprising Bennu are from an older part of the solar system," Hildebrand added. "We get to see the whole suite without the atmospheric filter."Bennu is also believed to possibly contain organic compounds such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen that could offer clues to how life began on Earth.
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