NASA’s space probe was launched in 2016, and four years later it arrived at the asteroid Bennu. With the help of a grappling arm out of the craft, it brought with it a soil sample consisting of dust and pebbles – the first ever that Nasa managed to collect.
And now, three years after the sample was taken, the capsule of dust has landed on Earth. Now the content is to be analyzed in detail, and there are big questions that we hope to get answers to.
– This asteroid may contain information about how life arose on our planet, says Dante Lauretta, research leader for Osiris-Rex at Nasa.
See the footage from when the space probe was brought home from the Utah desert, and taken into a clean room for documentation, in the feature above.