NASA’s first asteroid sample lands in Utah desert

Space
25 Sep 2023 • 3:43 AM MYT
The Independent
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The US space agency NASA brought home the largest asteroid sample ever returned to Earth on Sunday, 24 September.

The capsule landed in a training range near Salt Lake City in Utah at around 3.55pm BST.

Aerial visuals show the capsule and its accompanying parachute in the Utah desert.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft was launched by NASA on September 8, 2016. It collected a sample – roughly 250 grams – of rocks and dust from the surface of an asteroid, called Bennu, on October 20, 2020. Osiris-Rex set off back to Earth with the sample on 10 May 2021.

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