NASA will reveal what OSIRIS-REx brought back from asteroid Bennu on Wednesday
NASA will give the public a look at the asteroid sample brought back to Earth by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft next week. A of the reveal is set for 11 AM ET on Wednesday, October 11. The capsule containing rocks and dust taken from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid “Bennu” touched down at a Department of Defense training site in the Utah desert on September 24, and scientists have since been at work making their initial analyses.In four days, we will be revealing the sample from asteroid Bennu collected from the #OsirisRex mission. Tune in to our live broadcast starting at 11 am ET on Wednesday, Oct. 11. pic.twitter.com/pqZhDie3HK— NASA's Johnson Space Center (@NASA_Johnson) October 6, 2023OSIRIS-REx back in 2020 and spent the subsequent year-and-a-half observing the asteroid from abo...