The landing is expected around 5:55 pm Kyiv time at a desert test site in Utah.
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The American spacecraft OSIRIS-Rex, flying close to Earth, will drop a capsule with soil samples collected on the asteroid Bennu on its surface. NASA reported it.
The landing of the capsule with about 250 grams of asteroid soil is expected at about 17:55 Kyiv time at a test site in the Utah desert.
The probe will drop it from an altitude of about 102 thousand km. The capsule will reach the surface of the earth using a parachute.
We look forward to the delivery! 📦
Tune in tomorrow in 4K starting at 10am ET (1400 UTC) as our #OSIRISREx spacecraft returns NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space to Utah desert: https://t.co/ZoS01PUAyP
Use #AskNASA to submit questions for the show. pic.twitter.com/YjRu3ZNwWe
— NASA (@NASA) September 23, 2023
Let’s remember that OSIRIS-REx was launched in 2016. The device reached the asteroid Bennu, which is considered potentially dangerous to Earth, in December 2018.
The probe remained in orbit of the asteroid for two years, during which it conducted remote studies. In October 2020, approaching the cosmic body, he collected the earth with a manipulator arm.
The samples from Bennu are expected to provide clues about the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
This is NASA’s first mission to return soil samples from an asteroid to Earth. After a close flyby of Earth, OSIRIS-REx will continue to the asteroid Apophis to study it.
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