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NASA – Osiris Rex to take a sample again from a flying asteroid

NASA – Osiris Rex to take a sample again from a flying asteroid

NASA’s Osiris-Rex probe (Coalition/dpa/NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center image)
To be more precise, the probe “Osiris-Rex”, which is now on its way to Earth with the sample and is expected here in a year and a half, did it. But then “Osiris Rex” continues. The NASA It was announced that the probe should then explore another asteroid – Apophis. According to calculations, this asteroid will pass very close to Earth in seven years, only about 30 thousand kilometers. During this time, a NASA probe must be brought into the asteroid’s orbit for sampling here as well.

Learning more about the surface of asteroids can help NASA researchers calculate their paths. Both asteroids cross the Earth’s orbit from time to time and can get dangerously close to it.

In addition to Osiris-Rex, NASA has also expanded seven other missions: five dealing with Mars, one with the Moon, and continuing the “New Horizons” mission, whose target was originally from Pluto — and the probe is now far beyond the edge of the solar system.

This message was broadcast on 04/28/2022 on Deutschlandfunk.

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