Dust and pebbles may answer the mystery of how planets were created

2023-09-26T01:08:58.242Z

Highlights: 250 grams of dust and pebbles landed on Earth after four years on asteroid Bennu. Could answer questions about how planets were created four and a half billion years ago. "We are all incredibly excited," says professor and planetary scientist Sara Russell, who will analyse the samples. See the images from when the spacecraft was brought home from the desert in Utah, and taken into a completely clean room for documentation, in the feature above. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft was launched in 2016, and four years later it arrived at the asteroid.

250 grams of dust and pebbles. There may be the answer to how planets were created four and a half billion years ago. "We are all incredibly excited," says professor and planetary scientist Sara Russell, who will analyse the samples.