Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister

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• RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Green smoke in the shape of a skull escapes

  Huh. Thats a bit concerning.

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• emogu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  After 10,000 years I’m free! It’s time to conquer Earth!

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  • Perroboc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cue guitar riff

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    • Zanshi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Alpha! Rita escaped! Recruit a team of teenagers with attitude!

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  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This unlocked a forgotten core memory.

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    • jasondj@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “We didn’t expect the stripper to pop out, but we’re not complaining.”

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• troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Space dust.

  Don’t breathe this.

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  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ive had that theme song stuck in my for the past 4 or 5 days… it had finally stopped, and you had to go and type that. hums angerly

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• Raptor_007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Dante Lauretta, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, has waited nearly 20 years to get his hands on pristine specimens from an asteroid, which he says is a key to unlocking answers to mysteries about the origin of life on Earth.

  But there’s little question the dust grains visible immediately after scientists opened the lid to the canister are from asteroid Bennu, where the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured rocks during a touch-and-go landing in 2020.

  The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) mothership released the capsule to plunge into the atmosphere while it fired its thrusters to maneuver on a trajectory to head back into the Solar System for an extended mission to visit another asteroid.

  It then traveled to a specially built super-clean curation facility at the space center, which is also home to the collection of Moon rocks brought back on NASA’s Apollo missions more than 50 years ago.

  That will require the lab team in Houston to remove the TAGSAM sampling mechanism from its restraint inside the canister, which protected it for the journey back to Earth like a nested doll.

  The real treasure is inside TAGSAM, which we’re not going to get access to until probably late next week, and that is going to be a very deliberative process to figure out what is the nature of that collection, and how do we fairly distribute it to our international partners, to the science team for OSIRIS-REx, and also preserve the long-term integrity for future researchers."

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• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s a symbiote in there somewhere

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hope it’s Natasha Henstridge!

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Andromeda strain

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They have samples from the Andromeda system? 🤔 /s

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain

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• profdc9@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you see NASA scientists become emotionless, better get the he’ll out of town.

  On the other hand it might be hard to tell.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Every NASA scientist being interviewed about this has been excited as hell. Being into science doesn’t make you an emotionless robot. Science is dope.

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    • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes. Dope.

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• ViewSonik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What an incredible accomplishment. It would be fascinating to learn something we never thought imaginable through this mission.

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• redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why spent a lot of effort bringing down samples from Bennu when that asteroid will go down to earth on its own in 159 years? /s

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• betahack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  do you want space germs? because that’s how you get space germs!

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• droidpenguin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Read this as “Scientists just lied to open NASA’s asteroid canister”.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “We won’t open it, we swear. [Lie]”

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• Lightrider@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have you people never seen “The Blob”?!

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I heard opening it involved moving, rotating, unscrewing. That two feet of shining screw projected when suddenly, the lid fell off

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  • valen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nothing living can come from Mars, but still they come

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Million to one chance!

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• MooseBoys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  TFW you can’t decide whether to make a Life or The Andromeda Strain reference.

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• jerome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  um. was i in it?

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