
A mosaic picture of asteroid Bennu composed of pictures collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft
NASA/Goddard/College of Arizona
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the house rock exhibiting weirder properties than they anticipated. These embrace extraordinarily excessive nitrogen ranges and improbably magnetic properties.
Scientists have been analysing clumps of rock from Bennu since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned samples from the asteroid to Earth in 2023. They shortly discovered these contained a plethora of the chemical constructing blocks for all times, together with particles…