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NASA Finally Opens Asteroid Canister, 4.6 Billion-Year-Old Secrets Revealed
The curation team will release a catalog of all the Bennu samples later this year, which will allow scientists and institutions around the world to submit requests for research or display.
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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 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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Mystery Monolith's Disappearance From US Desert Explained
The mystery of how a metal monolith appeared in the Utah desert remains, but the riddle of its removal seems to have been solved -- and sadly, has nothing to do with aliens.
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Days After US Desert Mystery, Another Metal Monolith Found In Romania
A metal monolith which mysteriously appeared on a hilltop in northern Romania has sparked curiosity -- and mockery -- online, coming just days after a similar object was found in the Utah desert.
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Mysterious Metal Monolith In US Desert Reportedly Disappears
A mysterious metal monolith found in the remote desert of the western United States, sparking a national guessing game over how it got there, has apparently disappeared, officials said.
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Mysterious Monolith Found In US Desert Draws Theories About Aliens, UFOs
A mysterious metal "obelisk" found buried in the remote western United States desert has inflamed the imaginations of UFO spotters, conspiracy theorists and Stanley Kubrick fans around the world.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Sent Asteroid Rubble Flying in Successful Sample Grab
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft crushed rocks and sent rubble flying as it briefly touched an asteroid, a strong indication that samples were collected for return to Earth, officials said Wednesday.
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How A Pair Of Brothers May Have Cracked A 5-Year-Old Cold Case Over Their Christmas Break
On a November night in 2010, gunfire lit up a dark, desert canyon near Utah's Dead Horse State Park. It was a brief, brutal confrontation that brought both parties to the brink of death. Park ranger Brady Young, who was shot in in his lung, heart, shoulder, back, hip and groin during the confrontation, eventually dragged himself back to his patrol ...
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Toxic Spill From Colorado Mine Creeps Through US Southwest
Environmental biologists in Utah tested the waters of a key river Tuesday for signs of a toxic waste spill from a botched Colorado mine clean-up operation that prompted a state of emergency in the desert Southwest.
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Before Nevada Stand-Off, A Collision Between Ranchers and Tortoises
When the U.S. government declared the Mojave desert tortoise an endangered species in 1989, it effectively marked the cattle ranchers of Nevada's Clark County for extinction.
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NASA Finally Opens Asteroid Canister, 4.6 Billion-Year-Old Secrets Revealed
The curation team will release a catalog of all the Bennu samples later this year, which will allow scientists and institutions around the world to submit requests for research or display.
-
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.
-
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 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.
-
Mystery Monolith's Disappearance From US Desert Explained
The mystery of how a metal monolith appeared in the Utah desert remains, but the riddle of its removal seems to have been solved -- and sadly, has nothing to do with aliens.
-
Days After US Desert Mystery, Another Metal Monolith Found In Romania
A metal monolith which mysteriously appeared on a hilltop in northern Romania has sparked curiosity -- and mockery -- online, coming just days after a similar object was found in the Utah desert.
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Mysterious Metal Monolith In US Desert Reportedly Disappears
A mysterious metal monolith found in the remote desert of the western United States, sparking a national guessing game over how it got there, has apparently disappeared, officials said.
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Mysterious Monolith Found In US Desert Draws Theories About Aliens, UFOs
A mysterious metal "obelisk" found buried in the remote western United States desert has inflamed the imaginations of UFO spotters, conspiracy theorists and Stanley Kubrick fans around the world.
-
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Sent Asteroid Rubble Flying in Successful Sample Grab
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft crushed rocks and sent rubble flying as it briefly touched an asteroid, a strong indication that samples were collected for return to Earth, officials said Wednesday.
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How A Pair Of Brothers May Have Cracked A 5-Year-Old Cold Case Over Their Christmas Break
On a November night in 2010, gunfire lit up a dark, desert canyon near Utah's Dead Horse State Park. It was a brief, brutal confrontation that brought both parties to the brink of death. Park ranger Brady Young, who was shot in in his lung, heart, shoulder, back, hip and groin during the confrontation, eventually dragged himself back to his patrol ...
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Toxic Spill From Colorado Mine Creeps Through US Southwest
Environmental biologists in Utah tested the waters of a key river Tuesday for signs of a toxic waste spill from a botched Colorado mine clean-up operation that prompted a state of emergency in the desert Southwest.
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Before Nevada Stand-Off, A Collision Between Ranchers and Tortoises
When the U.S. government declared the Mojave desert tortoise an endangered species in 1989, it effectively marked the cattle ranchers of Nevada's Clark County for extinction.
