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NASA Is Struggling to Open Its Asteroid Sample Container

Mon, 10/23/2023 - 16:25

About a month ago, pristine samples from an asteroid landed on Earth while enclosed within a tight capsule. The sample canister was designed to keep the main chunk of the asteroid safe during its journey through space, but now teams at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) are struggling to open it to get at the space…

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Returned Asteroid Samples Are an ‘Astrobiologist’s Dream,’ NASA Says

Wed, 10/11/2023 - 13:53

Gizmodo : Environment

The OSIRIS-REx canister still contains the bulk of the asteroid sample inside, but pieces of the ancient space rock found on the outside have already shown evidence of organic matter embedded within tiny bits of debris.

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