dr-becky 1 year ago
astrophysicist #Space and Time

OSIRIS-REx | What Tests on the Asteroid Sample?

The OSIRIS-REx probe has finished it's 7 billion km journey to the asteroid Bennu and back but safely delivering a sample of the asteroid back to Earth. But what now? What tests are NASA planning to run on the sample? And what are we hoping to learn from it?

00:00 | Introduction

01:33 | OSIRIS-REx mission recap

05:08 | NASA's Sample Analysis Plan

06:55 | Hypothesis 1: Are the ingredients for life present on Bennu?

08:33 | Hypothesis 2: Did asteroids bring water to early-Earth?

10:54 | Hypothesis 3: Is Bennu a "rubble pile" like our planet formation models predict?

13:55 | Bloopers

Dr Becky Smethurst
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