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University of Arizona: First Look at Bennu Sample Reveals Carbon, Water
October 13, 2023
TUCSON, Arizona, Oct. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release:

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NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has returned a sample that scientists will study for decades to learn more about the formation of the solar system.

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Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission . . .

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