NASA manages to gain access to extraterrestrial material from the asteroid Bennu, hidden in a mysterious capsule.
It seems that the two most problematic screws have finally been unscrewed.
Asteroids, comets and meteorites. We often confuse these terms when talking about objects from outer space. Space agencies, such as NASA itself, have included certain asteroids among the primary targets of some of their missions. Forks cause for celebration That opening the capsule which has caused more than one problem in recent months, but which finally allows us to fully see remains collected from asteroid Bennu.
Discovery of extraterrestrial material Bennu
As you can read in the post we leave below these lines, and as NASA has published on its website, a group of scientists working on OSIRIS-REx capsule managed to access all samples which were extracted from asteroid Bennu.
It was the last day January 10 When two screwsthose responsible for the delay in access to asteroid samples have finally been retiredmanaging to open the TAGSAM mechanism, where most of the extraterrestrial material was located.
Open! Open! And ready for your close-up. After successfully removing the last two fasteners on January 10, members @astromaterials the team photographed #OSIRISREx asteroid sample using special technology to obtain super-high-resolution images. https://t.co/bBrfFT3ForR pic.twitter.com/NTGMVFZCP3
— NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) January 19, 2024
The mission continues to take steps in the right direction, given that the samples we were able to see for the first time were captured back in 2020. Photo as illustrated by the cover of the article, captured by Erika Blumenfeldcreative leader of the group of advanced imaging and visualization of astromaterials, as well as Joe Aebersoldproject Manager.
The detail in the image, which you can see at maximum resolution on NASA’s website, is due to the use of accurate, high-resolution hand-held photography and to the use of a procedure known as focus stacking Semi-automatic
#OSIRISREx An asteroid sample may contain some mineral deposits that vary between actual rock samples, but how do they separate into clearly different materials, as well as on the capsule bolt mounting bolt, unless it is loose separate material covering the rock @POT or that #spacebugs 👀 pic.twitter.com/yIQDKhXN9Y
— Jonathan Davis (@disruptordavies) January 20, 2024
Next steps what the Johnson Space Center scientists will do will be, first of all, separate the central part begin moving remnants of extraterrestrial material to Earth. trays which will be used later to study them. After this they will Photos specified trays before inspecting the material they contain.
samplesthen they will weighed, packaged and stored in my own Johnson Space Center, where the largest number of samples of materials from space is located on the entire planet. And we’re talking about dust and stones up to one centimeter longwhich tells us the history of the asteroid Bennu and, who knows, new clues about the creation of this type of space object.
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