The Canadian Space Agency's contribution to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission guarantees Canadian scientists will get access to four per cent of the collected asteroid sample
. Then a second laser was used at close range to make much higher resolution images in order to decide where the spacecraft would gather its samples.
This image shows sample site Nightingale Crater, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. The image is overlaid with a graphic of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to illustrate the scale of the site. Planets such as Earth and Mars have changed over time due to weathering and geological processes. But the smaller asteroids have remained unchanged for billions of years, making them time capsules from the past.
Once on the ground, if it survives the landing, the capsule will be quickly put into a clean container then flown to the Johnson Space Centre in Houston. There, the OSIRIS-REx team will open it in an ultra-clean facility designed to prevent contamination from Earth.
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