Scientific Bonanza – OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Return Capsule Studied as “Artificial Meteor”
Sensor equipment was placed right under the point of peak heating by the OSIRIS-REx capsule as it made its way to a Utah landing.
Image credit: Johns Hopkins University/Benjamin Fernando.
In the early morning hours of September 24, NASA’s first sample return mission of bits and pieces of an asteroid successfully parachuted into the Department of Defense Dugway Proving Ground in the Utah Test and Training Range, roughly 80 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah.
That extraterrestrial freight from afar came capsule-contained courtesy of the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission.
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