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?
2023-09-28 21:00:00 - Dr. Becky
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