A mosaic image provided by NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona, of asteroid Bennu composed of 12 PolyCam images, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 24 kilometres.A long-anticipated attempt by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to snatch a handful of a small asteroid went off without a hitch on Tuesday, though scientists have yet to learn how much, if any, of the precious material the spacecraft collected.
“I’m thrilled. There’s tremendous excitement that we’ve got to this point, but it’s tempered by knowing that there’s a long way to go to bring some of the asteroid home,” said Tim Haltigan, senior mission scientist for planetary exploration at the Canadian Space Agency. Bennu was selected as a destination for the OSIRIS-REx mission for a combination of reasons, including an orbit that repeatedly brings it near to Earth’s. It is also thought to be an extremely ancient body that has changed little since it formed more than 4½ billion years ago.
Now if only we could get clean water on all reserves.
Millions spent to collect dirt from a rock.
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If they’d only find intelligence!
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