The OSIRIS-REx mission is expected to shed new light on the nature and history of the solar system’s oldest building blocks
For an asteroid named after the Egyptian god of sunrise and rebirth, it was a fitting entrance.
With the sample’s return, the OSIRIS-REx mission is expected to shed new light on the nature and history of the solar system’s oldest building blocks. The arrival sequence began approximately four hours before the landing, when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft received an all clear from flight controllers to release the capsule.
Among the first tasks for the recovery team: checking the area around the capsule for unexploded ordinance, a feature of this isolated military site where the incoming capsule re-entered U.S. air space.
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