There have been some incredible pics from NASA lately, including the ones of Ceres which is kind of like a half planet/half asteroid. Now, it’s time for some samples!
NASA’s first-ever mission to bring pieces of an asteroid back to Earth is undergoing final checkout ahead of next year’s launch.
NASA’s Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft, or OSIRIS-REx, is progressing through assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) here at a Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company facility.
Following its September 2016 liftoff, OSIRIS-REx will head for a 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) asteroid named Bennu. Once the spacecract arrives, in 2018, it will carry out a tricky dance with the space rock for more than 500 days. Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid that could hold clues to the origin of the solar system and could host organic molecules like those that may have seeded life on Earth, researchers say.
Let’s find out more on how they plan to get samples and check out a cool radar video of asteroids page 2
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Thelast thing we need to do is bring some of those asteroids to earth, if its ment to it will on its own, who knows where its from or whats on it
What about Ceres?
I heard they taste like chicken.