The mission team received images sent by the spacecraft last Thursday which showed the surface of the sample collection was filled to the brim – so much so that an open strip was laid through the rocks, allowing particles to escape into space. The team canceled a scheduled maneuver for …
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The study was published in the journal Nature on Monday. If this asteroid seems familiar, it is because the recently boulder-covered space rock was the target of a historic NASA mission. The OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft landed shortly after 20 October on the planet’s surface to collect samples that would return to …
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“In the search for life in the universe, we ask a slightly different question in this research,” said Lisa Kaltenager, an associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University’s Arts Sciences and director of Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute. Video shared by organization. “We ask who really could have found us? Who …
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During a NASA press conference on Friday, some samples were leaking into space, according to Dante Lure Retana, chief investigator of OSIRIS-Rex at the University of Arizona in Tucson. “The big concern now is that the particles are coming out because we’re almost the victim of our own success,” he …
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A medical worker prepares injections into the corridors of Gones Hospital’s infectious diseases unit before visiting a patient in Gones, north of Paris, on May 22nd. Christoph Archambult / AFP / Getty Images According to the latest moving average of Johns Hopkins University analyzed by CNN, the five countries with …
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