Asteroid Bennu (Asteroid of the Apocalypse): US probe Osiris-Rex Collected Samples of 101955 Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. Four years after its launch, the American probe Osiris-Rex succeeded in touching the asteroid Bennu on Tuesday in an attempt to pick up a few tens of grams of dust, a high-precision operation 330 million kilometers from Earth, and of which we do not will experience success only in a few days. NASA, the American space agency, broadcasted live the landing of the Osiris-REx probe on the surface of the mysterious Bennu, one of the most studied asteroids by recent astronomy. It is known as an "asteroid of the apocalypse" because of the probability, albeit remote, that it will one day collide with Earth. Everything went perfectly," announced a few minutes after the contact, Dante Lauretta, the head of the mission, overcome with emotions, who went so far as to declare that the team had" written a page of history this evening ”. The probe will send images of the operation, and plenty of data, o...