Asteroid samples fetched from deep space have parachuted into the Utah desert to cap a seven-year journey.
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert on Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
Japan, the only other country to bring asteroid samples back to Earth, gathered only a teaspoon of material across two separate missions. NASA’s recovery effort in Utah included helicopters as well as a temporary clean room set up at the Defence Department’s Utah Test and Training Range. The samples will be flown on Monday morning to a new lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston. The building already houses hundreds of kilograms of moon rocks gathered by the Apollo astronauts more than half a century ago.
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