The sample, collected in 2020 from Bennu, is estimated by the US space agency to contain some 250 grams (nine ounces) of material.
People watch a TV live feed as they celebrate the successful landing of the Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return craft at Dugway, Utah, on September 24, 2023. The largest sample ever collected from an asteroid in space, and the first for NASA, landed in the Utah desert Sunday after a fiery final descent through Earth’s atmosphere, seven years after the mission’s launch.“Touchdown of the Osiris-Rex sample return capsule.
The sample, collected in 2020 from Bennu, is estimated by the US space agency to contain some 250 grams of material, far more than two previous asteroid specimens brought back by Japanese missions.
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