The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is expected to land in the United States on Sunday carrying 250g of rock and dust from the surface of asteroid Bennu for scientific research.
This would be the first time that the United States brings an asteroid sample to Earth — and Canadians are also involved., which is a laser system that helped scan the surface of the asteroid and gave detailed information about its features.FILE – This undated image provided by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu seen from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
“These rocks are coming from really the very, very beginning of the solar system when our planet was forming,” said Kim Dait, senior curator of mineralogy at the Royal Ontario Museum, who is part of the Canadian team working on OSIRIS-REx.“The one thing I can guarantee is that we will find something we didn’t expect,” she told Global News in an interview.
His lab group will conduct a thermal analysis of the portion of the asteroid sample that Canada will get to understand how Bennu holds and distributes heat. “We know there’s different types of material in Bennu,” Daly said. “We’re hoping we sample a good cross-section of it, so there’s going to be a lot of work for the whole team,” he said.
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