NASA asteroid probe Osiris-Rex launched

[Jan]

NASA asteroid probe Osiris-Rex launched

Osiris-Rex aims to collect samples from an asteroid and return them to earth.

 

[Thor]

I would love an article that lists the Technology advances between each new launch

Example Rosetta was pretty advanced but it's old tech, now this probe has the latest tech but 7 years from now the launch after that would be EVEN greater.

Guess what I am trying to say is I would like a article to show the different technologies used in these missions van toeka tot nou

 

[WillPower TJ]

The probe will gather samples from Bennu and return them to earth so they may be studied to gain a deeper understanding on how life may have been seeded here.

From an asteroid? :wtf:

 

[Arthur]

From an asteroid? :wtf:

Yes. The 2012 Sutter's Mill meteorite in California had tantalizing evidence but not proof of organic molecule traces. Seeding earth is currently conjecture, but not beyond the realms of possibility. We need to find out more, hence this project.

 

[WillPower TJ]

Yes. The 2012 Sutter's Mill meteorite in California had tantalizing evidence but not proof of organic molecule traces. Seeding earth is currently conjecture, but not beyond the realms of possibility. We need to find out more, hence this project.

So if we do find traces of organic molecules, how will that explain the origins of life on earth?
Will we use the supposition that sufficient quantities of such molecules were delivered by asteroids to stem life on earth?
already the organic building blocks matter can be found on distant stars and elsewhere in the solar system, no?

 

[Gordon_R]

Update, sampling stage imminent:

Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe aims for daring 'high five' with asteroid Bennu

Osiris-Rex will make the briefest of contacts with Asteroid Bennu to try to pick up rock samples.

www.bbc.com

 

[Gordon_R]

Sample capsule due to return:

Osiris-Rex: Asteroid Bennu 'is a journey back to our origins'

A handful of dust from an asteroid streaming through space could tell Nasa how life on Earth began.

www.bbc.com

 

[Gordon_R]

Interesting mineral samples found:

Phosphate in NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample suggests space rock Bennu hails from an ocean world

The largest sample returned from an asteroid could contain insights into our solar system's past and the origin of life on Earth.

www.space.com

 

[Gordon_R]

Complex organic building blocks have been found in the Bennu samples:

Bennu asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

www.bbc.com