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Asteroid will offer glimpse of 'earth while it was forming to shape life as we know it'

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NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid. For more on NASA's study of the first asteroid samples that just landed on planet Earth, FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih is joined by Dr. Daniel Brown, Associate Professor of Astronomy in the School of Science & Technology at Nottingham Trent University.

Added on the 25/09/2023 17:04:38 - Copyright : France 24 EN

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