{"id":773063,"date":"2023-11-14T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773063"},"modified":"2023-11-14T09:30:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T13:30:57","slug":"bennu-samples-from-asteroid-brought-back-to-earth-by-nasas-osiris-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773063","title":{"rendered":"Bennu: Samples from asteroid brought back to Earth by NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The sample return capsule from NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx touched down in Utah on 24 September<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Keegan Barber\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>NASA has successfully collected samples from the asteroid Bennu, after a capsule containing around 250 grams of the space rock touched down in the desert near Salt Lake City, Utah on Sunday. Scientists hope that Bennu, which is older than Earth, could help explain how the solar system formed.<\/p>\n<p>The capsule has been making its way home since 2020, when NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft extracted samples from the asteroid. The final, riskiest part of the mission \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2393877-samples-from-asteroid-bennu-brought-back-to-earth-by-nasas-osiris-rex\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sample return capsule from NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx touched down in Utah on 24 September Keegan Barber\/UPI\/Shutterstock NASA has successfully collected samples from the asteroid Bennu, after a capsule containing around&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/773064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}