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NASA Unveils Newly Returned Carbon-Rich Asteroid Sample
NASA on Wednesday gave the public a first glimpse of what scientists found inside a sealed capsule that was returned to Earth last month carrying a carbon-rich soil sample scooped from an asteroid's surface, including water-bearing clay minerals. A small quantity of the material collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft three years ago from the near-E...
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NASA To Reveal First Images Of Largest Asteroid Sample Collected In Space
NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps the origins of life itself.
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NASA Capsule With Largest Sample Ever From Asteroid Returns To Earth
The largest sample ever collected from an asteroid in space, and the first for NASA, landed in the Utah desert Sunday after a fiery final descent through Earth's atmosphere, seven years after the mission's launch.
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NASA Capsule With First Asteroid Sample Set For Touchdown In US Desert
A seven-year space voyage comes to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule lands in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.
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NASA's First Asteroid Sample On Track For Sunday Parachute Landing In Utah
A NASA space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago hurtled toward Earth this weekend headed for a fiery plunge through the atmosphere and a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday.
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NASA's Historic Asteroid Space Probe Set To Return To Earth After 7 Years
NASA's first mission to retrieve an asteroid sample and return it to US is expected to reach a perilous finale on Sunday with a descent into the Utah desert. Scientists hope the material will help understand the formation of solar system.
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 Space Probe to Bring Asteroid Dust to Earth
After six years in space, Japan's Hayabusa2 probe is heading home, but only to drop off its rare asteroid samples before starting a new mission.
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NASA Probe OSIRIS-REx Briefly Touches Asteroid Bennu to Collect Rare Samples
After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched down on asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday to collect rock and dust samples in a precision operation 200 million miles (330 million kilometres) from Earth.
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NASA's Sampling Probe Mission Snaps Picture Of Asteroid Bennu
NASA's first asteroid-sampling mission OSIRIS-REx, which went into orbit around asteroid Bennu on New Year's Eve, has captured incredible photographs of the smallest ever celestial body to be orbited by a spacecraft.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spaceship Sets Record by Entering Orbit Around Asteroid Bennu
Elon Musk has suggested that the first resident on Mars could be artificial intelligence (AI). Musk wants to establish a base on Mars.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe, Its First Asteroid Sample Collector, Reaches Target 'Bennu'
NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived Monday at its destination, Bennu.
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Two Years After Launch, Spacecraft Takes First Photo Of "Oldest Asteroid"
Two years after launching from Florida, a NASA spacecraft is closing in on an ancient asteroid, Bennu, for a sample of space dust that could reveal clues to the start of life in the solar system.
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NASA Set To Launch Near-Earth Asteroid Mission
US space agency NASA is poised on Thursday to launch its groundbreaking first mission to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples that could shed light on the dawn of the solar system.
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Nasa to Launch First US Asteroid Sample Return Mission on September 8
OSIRIS-REx will launch aboard the Atlas V 411 rocket and is scheduled to reach its asteroid target, Bennu, in 2018.
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NASA Set To Launch First Asteroid Sample Return Mission
NASA is set to launch its first mission to return pristine samples of an asteroid to Earth, which will help study how planets formed and how life began.
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NASA Unveils Newly Returned Carbon-Rich Asteroid Sample
NASA on Wednesday gave the public a first glimpse of what scientists found inside a sealed capsule that was returned to Earth last month carrying a carbon-rich soil sample scooped from an asteroid's surface, including water-bearing clay minerals. A small quantity of the material collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft three years ago from the near-E...
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NASA To Reveal First Images Of Largest Asteroid Sample Collected In Space
NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps the origins of life itself.
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NASA Capsule With Largest Sample Ever From Asteroid Returns To Earth
The largest sample ever collected from an asteroid in space, and the first for NASA, landed in the Utah desert Sunday after a fiery final descent through Earth's atmosphere, seven years after the mission's launch.
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NASA Capsule With First Asteroid Sample Set For Touchdown In US Desert
A seven-year space voyage comes to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule lands in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.
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NASA's First Asteroid Sample On Track For Sunday Parachute Landing In Utah
A NASA space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago hurtled toward Earth this weekend headed for a fiery plunge through the atmosphere and a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday.
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NASA's Historic Asteroid Space Probe Set To Return To Earth After 7 Years
NASA's first mission to retrieve an asteroid sample and return it to US is expected to reach a perilous finale on Sunday with a descent into the Utah desert. Scientists hope the material will help understand the formation of solar system.
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 Space Probe to Bring Asteroid Dust to Earth
After six years in space, Japan's Hayabusa2 probe is heading home, but only to drop off its rare asteroid samples before starting a new mission.
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NASA Probe OSIRIS-REx Briefly Touches Asteroid Bennu to Collect Rare Samples
After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched down on asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday to collect rock and dust samples in a precision operation 200 million miles (330 million kilometres) from Earth.
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NASA's Sampling Probe Mission Snaps Picture Of Asteroid Bennu
NASA's first asteroid-sampling mission OSIRIS-REx, which went into orbit around asteroid Bennu on New Year's Eve, has captured incredible photographs of the smallest ever celestial body to be orbited by a spacecraft.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spaceship Sets Record by Entering Orbit Around Asteroid Bennu
Elon Musk has suggested that the first resident on Mars could be artificial intelligence (AI). Musk wants to establish a base on Mars.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe, Its First Asteroid Sample Collector, Reaches Target 'Bennu'
NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived Monday at its destination, Bennu.
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Two Years After Launch, Spacecraft Takes First Photo Of "Oldest Asteroid"
Two years after launching from Florida, a NASA spacecraft is closing in on an ancient asteroid, Bennu, for a sample of space dust that could reveal clues to the start of life in the solar system.
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NASA Set To Launch Near-Earth Asteroid Mission
US space agency NASA is poised on Thursday to launch its groundbreaking first mission to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples that could shed light on the dawn of the solar system.
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Nasa to Launch First US Asteroid Sample Return Mission on September 8
OSIRIS-REx will launch aboard the Atlas V 411 rocket and is scheduled to reach its asteroid target, Bennu, in 2018.
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NASA Set To Launch First Asteroid Sample Return Mission
NASA is set to launch its first mission to return pristine samples of an asteroid to Earth, which will help study how planets formed and how life began.
