Texas State Alum Shares Views of Rare NASA Asteroid Samples With the World
July 19, 2024
July 19, 2024
SAN MARCOS, Texas, July 19 -- Texas State University issued the following news release:
In 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security Regolith Explorer) mission returned samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth, making it the first U.S. space mission to accomplish such a feat.
Though few people will ever get to analyze the asteroid samples, scientists across the globe can study high-resolution images of those samples th . . .
In 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security Regolith Explorer) mission returned samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth, making it the first U.S. space mission to accomplish such a feat.
Though few people will ever get to analyze the asteroid samples, scientists across the globe can study high-resolution images of those samples th . . .