The sampling mechanism from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with material from asteroid Bennu inside NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebers
An asteroid sample brought back to Earth may have once been part of a small, ocean-covered world with conditions favourable for life to emerge. Thats according to the team behind NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission, which brought back a sample of the asteroid Bennu in September 2023.
My working hypothesis is that this was an ancient ocean world, says at the University of Arizona, the…



