The OSIRIS-REx capsule containing a “treasure trove” of space rocks has now arrived at Johnson Space Center, where scientists will gingerly unpack it.
isn’t quite over: That precious cargo needs to be kept safe, then carefully opened one step at a time, before any science can be done.
Technicians at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will now begin dismantling the capsule, piece by piece, to get down to an interior canister containing the asteroid sample. The methodical process is so that someone doesn’t accidentally harm the canister or compromise future scientific research.
Inside, that canister could hold as much as 9 ounces of space rocks and dust. Bennu is a lifeless rock, and Dante Lauretta, a planetary scientist and head of the OSIRIS-REx team, emphasizes that they’re not expecting to find biological material. “No life forms that we know of could survive that kind of environment. We’re more worried about Earth biology contaminating the sample,” he said at a NASA post-landing press conference on Sunday.
On Scene Commander of Recovery Jasmine Nakayama attaches the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to a helicopter for transport to the cleanroom
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