NASA Lands Long-Awaited Asteroid Sample on Earth

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft grabbed a fistful of rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu and returned the sample to Earth, dropping a capsule in Utah. It could contain clues about the origins of our solar system.

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[mikeypiros]

probably a lot of gold, nickel, diamond and other precious metals..

[hailmammonmoments]

Infinitely more valuable than waving your nuts from orbit and calling yourself an explorer.

[octogirl]

Would it not contain the same elements that ate on Earth?

[qrvbvme]

Why all the interfearance so we cant hear the narrator ?

[AFloridaSon]

And how much do we know about the ocean floors of our own planet?

[albclean]

They say this all the time,
This will tell us how it all started.

[xSMOKExEMxALLx]

Don't open this up or we'll have to call on Rick Grimes to save us! 🤣

[trull]

It even looks like the return capsule from Andromeda Strain. There is nothing green and growing in that thing is there?

[jasons]

I'm paying 8 bucks for a dozen eggs and 5 bucks for a gallon of gas and these fools are spending billions of dollars to collect f'ing rocks!

[stevehammel]

The golden fleece award goes to the unwitting taxpayers for a hairbrained scheme

[chilledwalrus]

Initial inspection shows that some very unusual contents were returned in the capsule, not simply pebbles. There appears to be material resembling diatomaceous earth. Diatoms! Life!

[cowgirlo]

If you really want to know, how we came to be, go to Genesis: chap. 1 verse 1 and you will know. Knowledge is power! God created the heavens and the earth.

[pawshands]

One of these days a alien virus will be brought back.

[JulzPalmer]

Awesome & interesting. Please get Zach Quinto back for your narrator and for more, updated NOVA planets shows 🪐