NASA Bennu Asteroid Sample Has Organic Material and Abundant Water
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6FH2Z)
On Sept. 24, 2023 NASA recovered a 250-gram dust sample from the Bennu asteroid, marking the first sample return of its kind in America and concluding the seven-year OSIRIS-REx mission. The asteroid sample mission was launched in 2016 and traveled an estimated 3.86 billion miles before it first landed on the Bennu asteroid in 2020. ...