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25 wrz 2023 · On Sept. 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission made U.S. history by returning samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth after seven years in deep space. Launched in 2016, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft...
24 wrz 2023 · Nasa rescue workers have described as "awesome" their operation to retrieve a capsule containing fragments of the asteroid Bennu
11 paź 2023 · It's a good sign the samples taken from the 500m-wide asteroid will be able to reveal new information about the formation of the Solar System some 4.6 billion years ago. The stream is showing the...
Did you ever wonder how NASA spots asteroids that maybe getting too close to Earth for comfort? Watch and learn. Find out more about NASA finds, studies and tracks near-Earth objects by visiting https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense.
1 dzień temu · The Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth. The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance from Earth for each encounter.
28 sty 2024 · You can watch the airplane-size asteroid as it sails just 220,000 miles (354,000 kilometers) from Earth — more than nine tenths of the average distance between our planet and the moon — on a ...
12 gru 2023 · Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth show evidence of high-carbon content and water, which together could indicate the building blocks of life on Earth may be found in the rock.
