Preparing to receive samples from asteroid Bennu

In the image you can see the training to receive something that will come to us from space, and it will be thanks to the work of humans, it is the capsule with the samples collected from the Bennu asteroid of about 265 meters in diameter.

It is good to remember that years ago there was a big mess in the sensationalist media because of the arrival of a capsule similar to the one from the Genesis mission that brought samples of the plasma carried by the solar wind and that ended up crashing in the Utah desert. It wasn't a UFO, it won't be with the new capsule.

The images you see are from July 18 to 20, the NASA team was rehearsing the recovery of the return capsule, making a simulation of the landing site, the actual landing is expected to be on September 24 in the desert of Utah, although this is not the first time that samples of an asteroid have been brought back, that merit belongs to the Japanese with the hayabusa mission that brought asteroid samples to earth on June 13, 2010 Itokawa.

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This asteroid is a pile of debris in the shape of an elongated potato 535 meters long by about 250 meters wide. The importance of these samples is that when an asteroid enters the Earth's atmosphere they undergo very important changes, to begin with the high temperature of entry or even the explosion that ends up fragmenting them can alter their composition, then when they hit the ground they can end up being contaminated with terrestrial material, especially those that remain on earth for millennia before being found by experts.

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These objects in the Cosmos apparently contain many of the essential molecules and elements for life to arise and, what's more, some of these elements could only have formed far from the Sun in a cold environment, much further and colder than what we would find. in the Earth's orbit, so if in the end we find these elements on our planet and have ended up being part of living beings, including our body, it is because scientists suspect that they had to arrive at some point transported in comets or asteroids.

To what extent could asteroids and comets serve as seed materials for life to arise on earth or any other planet, whether in our solar system or beyond, that's why we need to study fresh and pure samples of an asteroid and that This is what NASA hopes to do by collecting pure samples of the asteroid Bennu on September 24 in the Utah desert.

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