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What has NASA's OSIRIS-REx discovered around the asteroid Bennu?
NASA's OSIRIS-REx has now been orbiting the asteroid Bennu for a year already, but what has it discovered so far?
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NASA | Asteroid Bennu's Journey
Bennu's Journey is a 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar system. Born from the rubble of a violent collision, hurled through space for millions of years, Asteroid Bennu...
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Asteroids: Small Rocks with Big Potential Dangers
In this video, we explore the fascinating world of asteroids - small, rocky masses that orbit the sun. While they are too small to be called planets, asteroids can still pose a threat to Earth. Scientists study asteroids to learn about...
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Mars might have formed over longer time than previously thought
The early solar system was a chaotic place with many large-scale collisions.
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China’s plan to divert apocalyptic asteroid
China could save the world from an asteroid impact by launching a fleet of rockets into space to divert its path.
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Japan's asteroid-smashing probe reveals a surprisingly young space rock
Launched in late 2012, Japan’s spacecraft Hayabusa2 was sent to investigate asteroid Ryugu by lobbing a copper shell into the space rock. Japan’s space agency JAXA published the probe’s findings in the journal Science on March 19.
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Farewell to Asteroid Bennu
A look back at OSIRIS-REx’s time at Asteroid Bennu starting with the Touch-and-Go (TAG) sample acquisition event from Oct. 20, 2020, and leading up to its departure from the asteroid on May 10, 2021. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
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NASA to use robot for asteroid study in 2016
Planned for 2016, NASA's Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, will be the first US mission to gather samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth. The goal of the mission...
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Investigating Asteroids with Lucy's Scientific Instruments
This video highlights the suite of instruments aboard the Lucy spacecraft that will be used to collect data on the Trojan asteroids. Since Lucy will be the first space mission to explore the Trojans, the information gathered will provide...
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On a Mission: Season Two, Episode 1 - The Sky Is Falling
Earth is in a cosmic shooting gallery. With so many asteroids zipping around, how can we find them all before they find us?
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NASA says a large asteroid will fly by Earth on Feb. 15
NASA warned that asteroid 2002 PZ39 will approach Earth on Saturday.
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Arriving at Asteroid Bennu
Asteroids are the leftover building blocks of the solar system, remnants from the dawn of planet formation that may have delivered organics and water to early Earth, and which could hold clues to the origins of life. Now, a NASA mission...
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OSIRIS-REx Tech: Mapping an Asteroid with Lasers
The OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) will provide a three-dimensional map of asteroid Bennu’s shape, which will allow scientists to understand the context of the asteroid’s geography and the sample location. OLA is provided by the...
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Stellar Space Vocabulary for IELTS
Today we’ll learn space vocabulary for IELTS Writing Task 2 and Speaking Part 3.
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‘Potentially Hazardous’ asteroid 2017 XC62 passing by Earth January 24, according to NASA
An asteroid the size of the Washington Monument will come around 7.2 million kilometers from Earth on January 24, according to NASA.
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Where the giant dinosaur-killing asteroid came from
About 66 million years ago, an object estimated to be 6 miles wide (that’s almost 10 kilometers wide) slammed into the Earth. Now, scientists think they know where that object came from.
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NASA | Studying an Asteroid on Earth
Astrobiologists like Jason Dworkin are keenly interested in the origins of life on Earth, but the evidence that they seek was erased long ago by Earth’s geology and chemistry. Fortunately, asteroids like Bennu preserve the solar system’s...
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Asteroid smasher set to launch this month
NASA is ready to launch a spacecraft that will smash into a big asteroid to make it change its course.
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Rocket-Lovers Watch OSIRIS-REx Launch
OSIRIS-REx launched Thursday, September 8 at 7:05PM on an Atlas V rocket on a journey to study asteroid Bennu and return a sample to Earth. Thousands of visitors watched the launch, some of whom were part of a NASA Social event. Music...
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Lucy's Journey: Episode 3 - "The Trojan Asteroids"
Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter. Music is "Nip and Tuck" by Arch Bacon, via Universal Production Music Video credit:...
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OSIRIS-REx Sheds Light on Hazardous Asteroid Bennu
On September 25, 2135, an asteroid called Bennu will make a close flyby of Earth. Our planet’s gravity will tweak Bennu’s path, making it a challenge to calculate its future trajectory. During the flyby, there is an extremely small...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: SOFIA Shows Ceres' True Composition: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on January 19, 2017.
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NASA | Desert R.A.T.S. 2011
Desert Research And Technology Studies (D-R.A.T.S) kicks off an exciting new year of field testing. The crew is back in action, testing communication scenarios for near-Earth asteroids, and 2 new instruments from Goddard: ExPED and VAPoR.
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Lucy's Journey
Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer...