See what the asteroid samples have revealed so far, and learn more about OSIRIS-APEX, the follow-on to OSIRIS-REx, which will study the asteroid Apophis after its rare close encounter with Earth in 2029. science.nasa.gov/mission/osiris…
Stuck the landing!
Three years ago today, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released a sample capsule at the edge of Earth’s atmosphere to land perfectly upright in the Utah desert.
The capsule held a record amount of pristinely captured rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu.
