Bennu Current Affairs, GK & News
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe to collect samples from Asteroid Bennu
The United States-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched OSIRIS-REx to the asteroid Bennu in 2016. The mission aimed to study Asteroid Bennu and return at least 60 grams of the sample. Highlights After two years of circling, the satellite is to touch the asteroid. The spacecraft has three bottles of nitrogen. This means that ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Bennu • Extinction Level Event • Life • NASA • OSIRIS-REx
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft find evidence of water on asteroid Bennu
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has found water locked inside asteroid Bennu. Bennu is too small to have ever hosted liquid water, but this finding does indicate that liquid water was present at some time on Bennu’s parent body, a much larger asteroid. Key Facts Data obtained from spacecraft’s two ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2018
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Bennu • NASA • OSIRIS-REx • Science and Technology
NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx arrives at its targeted asteroid Bennu after 2-year journey
NASA’s first-ever OSIRIS-REx mission designed to visit asteroid and return sample of its dust back to Earth reached its destination, Bennu, two years after its launch. It will use its suite of five science instruments to study asteroid for the next year and a half. OSIRIS-Rex OSIRIS-Rex stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2018
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Asteroid Sampling Mission • Bennu • International • NASA • OSIRIS-REx • Science and Technology • Space technology