NASA Science Live: OSIRIS-REx - X Marks the Spot (Episode 13)

  • Released Thursday, December 12th, 2019
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:45PM
  • ID: 13504

This episode of NASA Science Live is broadcasting live from AGU in San Francisco. We have breaking news on our satellite OSIRIS-REx which is orbiting an asteroid named Bennu - and some of its mineral fragments could be older than the solar system itself. These microscopic grains of dust could be the same ones that spewed from dying stars and eventually came together to make the Sun and its planets nearly 4.6 billion years ago. And today we'll announce the site where OSIRIS-REx will attempt to collect at least 30 sugar packets worth of dirt and rocks from Bennu's surface.

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