The material from Bennu could help us better understand the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps how asteroids helped seed our world with the ingredients for life.
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24, 2023 12:16 pm ETThe asteroid Bennu was chosen as the Osiris-REx mission’s target because it was carbon-rich and could contain biochemical building blocks needed for life.Mission controllers and scientists broke into whoops and applause Sunday as they watched an orange creamsicle-colored parachute deploy above a capsule carrying the largest sample
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