Osiris Rex Display Sample

The sample 3.5 to 8.8 ounces 100 to 250 grams of rocky space rubble collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is thought to contain some of the earliest precursors to life and is the first

The OSIRIS-REx Bennu sample display case at far left now on view in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals meteorite gallery at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. SmithsonianJames Di Loreto and Phillip R. Lee

The OSIRIS-REx Bennu sample now on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. In this image, you can see the specimen before the container was sealed. The sample's official

The goal of the OSIRIS-REx sample collection was 60 grams of asteroid material. Curation experts at NASA Johnson, and the University of Arizona for public display. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, provides overall mission management, systems engineering, and the safety and mission assurance for OSIRIS-REx

Small samples of the asteroid material returned to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will be publicly displayed at three museums in the United States. Image credit UofASmithsonianSCHNASA

The rock is just a portion of a sample from asteroid Bennu collected in 2020 during NASA's 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission. Bennu then landed on Earth in 2023. It is the third asteroid sample to reach

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History will unveil the first public display of a sample of Bennua carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroidto museumgoers Friday, Nov. 3. The rocky fragment was collected from the asteroid by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, the first U.S. space mission to sample the surface of a planetary body since Apollo 17 in 1972.

Examining this ancient matter could hold clues about how organic materials first arrived on Earth, so NASA launched the OSIRIS-REx mission in 2016 to retrieve a sample from Bennu's surface. The

A small amount of quotextra bonus samplequot from the asteroid Bennu is visible on the outside of the TAGSAM device that contains the bulk of the sample returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. It returned to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, to drop off a capsule with material from asteroid Bennu. After dropping off the sample capsule through Earth's atmosphere, the spacecraft was renamed OSIRIS-APEX and sent on a new mission to explore asteroid Apophis in 2029.