NASA missions

NASA publishes the first photos of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu

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NASA publishes the first photos of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu

Four months ago, the OSIRIS-REx capsule, which contained samples from Bennu, crash-landed in the Utah desert. Photo: EFE – NASA DRAWING/Keegan Barber Four months ago, in the Utah desert, in the United States, the OSIRIS-REx capsule fell, containing inside a container with samples captured by Bennu, an asteroid cataloged by NASA as “potentially dangerous”. (Read: … Read more

In the video: Here’s what a day on Mars captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover looks like

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In the video: Here’s what a day on Mars captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover looks like

NASA’s Curiosity rover, stationed for two weeks during Mars’ solar conjunction in November 2023, used its front and rear black-and-white Hazcams to capture 12 hours of a Martian day. The rover’s shadow is visible on the surface in these Front Hazcam images. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech At the beginning of November this year, the National Aeronautics and … Read more