Recently the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said that its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will depart asteroid Bennu, and start its two-year long journey back to Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bennu is an asteroid located about 200 million miles away from the Earth. Bennu is named after an Egyptian deity. The asteroid was discovered by a team from the NASA-funded Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research team in 1999. Bennu is a B-type asteroid, implying that it contains significant amounts of carbon and various other minerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bennu is considered to be an ancient asteroid that has not gone through a lot of composition-altering change through billions of years, which means that below its surface lie chemicals and rocks from the birth of the solar system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, scientists and researchers are interested in studying this asteroid as it might give them clues about the origins of the solar system, the sun, the Earth and the other planets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OSIRIS-REx is NASA\u2019s first mission to visit a near-Earth asteroid, survey its surface and collect a sample from it. The mission is essentially a seven-year-long voyage and will conclude when at least 60 grams of samples are delivered back to the Earth. The mission promises to bring the largest amount of extra-terrestrial material back to our planet since the Apollo era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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