Osiris Rex Probe

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  NASA Shares Photo of Asteroid Bennu as OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads Back to Earth After Collecting Samples

  NASA shared an Instagram post showing the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu, from which the space agency has collected samples using its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which will return to Earth in 2023.

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  OSIRIS-REx Space Probe Heads Home With Asteroid Dust From Bennu

  The US space probe OSIRIS-REx left the orbit of the asteroid Bennu, from which it collected dust samples last year, to begin its long journey back to Earth.

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  NASA Prepares OSIRIS-REx to Safely Store Leaking Asteroid Samples

  NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is set to begin a new mission to store the particles it scooped up from the asteroid Bennu’s surface which were slowly leaking into space because a flap got wedged open.

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  NASA Working to Prevent Losing Too Much of OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample

  NASA said Friday that its robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx had succeeded in collecting a large sample of particles from the Bennu asteroid this week -- but so much that it was leaking.

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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 OSIRIS-REx Probe to Touch Down on Asteroid Bennu on October 20

  After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples, the agency said Thursday.

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  Nasa's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Probe May Find Clues to Origins of Life on Earth

  Osiris-Rex is headed to a 1,640-foot (500-meter) wide asteroid named Bennu, which circles the sun in roughly the same orbit as Earth.