After an extremely long journey from asteroid Bennu and a complicated extraction from its canister, NASA is getting exciting data from its first ever sample collected from an asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx mission brought back a sample from the asteroid – which is believed likely to have originally formed in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter before drifting closer to Earth — and landed it in the Utah desert in 2023. A first look at the sample revealed some intriguing
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