Name: OSIRIS-REx: The Return
Uploaded: 2023-01-01
Duration: 15 min 2 s
Description: Launched in 2016, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returns to Earth after a 7-year journey with NASA’s very first asteroid sample. Rocks and dust collected in 2020 from the asteroid Bennu will provide scientists with key evidence from the birth of our solar system—about 4.5 billion years ago.

Launched in 2016, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returns to Earth after a 7-year journey with NASA’s very first asteroid sample. Rocks and dust collected in 2020 from the asteroid Bennu will provide scientists with key evidence from the birth of our solar system—about 4.5 billion years ago.

Follow NASA's first asteroid sample return as OSIRIS-REx comes home with rocks and dust collected from Bennu in 2020. The episode reveals how this material could illuminate the birth of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago, while showing why studying Bennu matters for understanding near-Earth asteroids. Sign up to see a high-stakes return with discoveries still unfolding.

A seven-year mission delivers ancient dust from Bennu back to Earth.

OSIRIS-REx: The Return

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