Samples from Asteroid Bennu will completely change our perspective on the cosmic world. If NASA can open this box. We’ve all had difficulties unboxing a jar. NASA is currently experiencing a similar situation. NASA has a challenge to overcome in order to examine sample samples from Asteroid Bennu with the OSIRIS-REx mission. Here are the details…
NASA is trying to open the box to examine pieces from Bennu Asteroid!
NASA sent a $1.16 billion mission to an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth. He then managed to retrieve the crumbling pieces of space rock and bring them back to our humble habitable world. Now it’s time to open the box from Bennu Asteroid. However, this is not easy at all.
In particular, two fittings in TAGSAM (Touch and Go Sample Collection Mechanism) refuse to yield to existing tools. So it cannot be opened. They do not want to damage the box and its contents. That’s why they approach it very cautiously.
Scientists hope that samples from Asteroid Bennu may hold clues about the formation of the Solar System and the origin of life. Therefore, they are eager to examine the samples as soon as possible. Luckily, the outside of the sample box is covered in plenty of asteroid material. This means that work has already begun for some sciences. At a press conference last month, OSIRIS-REx sample analyst Daniel Glavin described the asteroid pieces as “an astrobiologist’s dream.”
Astrobiologist Jean-Pierre de Vera from the German Aerospace Center said, “OSIRIS-REx samples claim that water was delivered to the primitive Earth by comets. In addition, they will help us learn whether this could also be achieved by asteroids. In addition, these rocks are believed to have been brought to the Earth by comets.” “The question remains as to the amount of organic matter that could have been transported to and served as the first building blocks of life.” said.
When meteorites are found on Earth, they offer scientists the opportunity to investigate the origins of the solar system. In this way, they capture clues about how our solar system was formed. It also offers a window into how a planet like Earth, rich in plate tectonics, covered with oceans and teeming with living things, was formed.
But there is a problem. Meteorites that land on Earth pollute the atmosphere. This makes research difficult. This new mission brought us this information directly from an asteroid. In this way, the research results will be more reliable.
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