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Bennu Radar Shape Model – OSIRIS-REx Mission [1]

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Date: 2023-03-28  

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, with material from asteroid Bennu. When it arrives, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert. The pristine material from Bennu – rocks and dust collected from the asteroid’s surface in 2020 – will offer generations of scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago. Learn more about the OSIRIS-REx mission

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[1] Url: https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2023/03/28/2018-arrival-at-bennu-a-world-full-of-surprises/556f8b58-a00d-4b70-b2c9-12c6e1cce08e/

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