NASA's Osiris Rex mission successfully delivered a pristine time capsule from the earliest days of our solar system.

The mission collected rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Benu.

What the sample reveals about the origins of life on Earth and the potential for life elsewhere in the solar system.

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Hello and welcome to technology today. I'm Lisa Benia. NASA's Osiris Rex is the first

U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. The spacecraft launched in September

2016. In October 2020, it collected a sample of rocks and dust from the

surface of the Near Earth asteroid Benu and delivered that sample to Earth in September

2023. Since then, scientists have been analyzing the rocks and dust looking for the ingredients of

life.

SWRI planetary geologist and Osiris Rex instrument scientist and mission co-investigator,

Dr. Vicky Hamilton, was a podcast guest right before the sample collection in 2020.

She is back with an exciting update on what the mission uncovered. Vicki joins us from the

SWRI Solar System Science and Exploration Office in Boulder, Colorado. It's great to welcome you back,

Vicki. Thank you. It's great to get to talk about this part of the mission. I am eager to discuss the

findings of the mission,

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