"A brown-and-white capsule that spent the
last seven years swooping through the solar system — and sojourning at
an asteroid — has finally come home. And it has brought a cosmic
souvenir: a cache of space rock that scientists are hungry to get their
hands on. On Sunday morning, those
scientists waited eagerly as the pod shot through Earth’s atmosphere at
thousands of miles per hour. It gently parachuted down into the damp
desert landscape of the Utah Test and Training Range, about 80 miles
west of Salt Lake City, at 8:52 a.m. local time. ..."
YouTube: Tour of Asteroid Bennu
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