NASA is set to reveal the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps the origins of life itself.
The OSIRIS-REx mission collected rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu in 2020, and a capsule containing the precious cargo successfully returned to Earth last month, landing in the Utah desert.
OSIRIS-REx was no the first mission to rendezvous with an asteroid and bring back samples for study - Japan succeeded in the feat twice, returning bits of space pebbles in 2010 and 2020. NASA researchers have so far been heartened by the discovery of"bonus particles," described as black dust and debris coating the sample collector.
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