Author: Cullen Desforges / Source: SpaceFlight Insider
On Dec. 3, 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the half-kilometer wide Bennu asteroid to begin a two-year study to inspect, investigate, and eventually collect samples of the materials making up its mysterious surface.
Seven days after its initial arrival at the tiny world, it was revealed that water lies within the minerals that make up the asteroid.
This discovery came soon after scientists at NASA’S Goddard Space Flight Center examined data from two of the spacecraft’s key instruments, the thermal energy-capturing OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) and…
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