{"id":250892,"date":"2023-09-25T09:10:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T13:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=307898"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:09:19","slug":"nasa-collects-an-important-sample-of-an-asteroid-by-parachute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/nasa-collects-an-important-sample-of-an-asteroid-by-parachute\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA collects an important sample from an asteroid… by parachute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Asteroids indeed hold various secrets. While new asteroids that could pass near Earth are discovered<\/a> from time to time (some more dangerous than others), these large solid masses of rock and metal<\/strong> are true remnants of the universe<\/strong> itself that can reveal details about it that were previously unknown to us.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now, NASA <\/strong>has scored another point in the history of space science by successfully collecting, via parachute, the largest sample ever taken from the surface of an asteroid<\/a><\/strong>. The robotic spacecraft responsible for collecting this rock sample was OSIRIS-REx, which was sent to the 500-meter-diameter asteroid Bennu years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As reported by Reuters<\/a><\/strong>, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released the sample capsule as it passed by Earth at a distance of 107,826 kilometers. It landed in a designated area west of Salt Lake City<\/strong>, a vast U.S. Army training and testing range located in Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With this achievement, NASA concludes a joint mission spanning six years<\/strong> between the U.S. space agency and the University of Arizona<\/strong>. OSIRIS-REx was launched in September 2016 and arrived at Bennu in 2018. After spending two years orbiting the asteroid<\/strong>, the spacecraft was able to get close enough to collect a sample of loose surface material using its robotic arm on October 20, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This marks the third asteroid sample<\/strong>, as well as the largest, to be returned to Earth for analysis, following two similar missions by the Japanese space agency that concluded in 2010 and 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Indeed, like other asteroids, Bennu is a genuine relic of the early Solar System<\/strong>. Since its chemistry and mineralogy have hardly changed since its formation about 4.5 billion years ago, this astronomical object could hold valuable clues about the origins and development of rocky<\/strong> planets like Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a 6-year space mission, NASA has finally collected the largest sample extracted to date from the surface of an asteroid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":250895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[4289],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-250892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionnasa-app"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317709,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250892\/revisions\/317709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250892"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=250892"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=250892"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=250892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}