{"id":12153,"date":"2023-09-29T18:09:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T22:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12153"},"modified":"2023-09-29T21:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T01:11:44","slug":"from-out-of-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12153","title":{"rendered":"From out of this world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to mention this: A few days ago, the sample capsule of the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/osiris-rex\">OSIRIS-REx<\/a> mission returned safely to the Earth, carrying inside a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/sep\/24\/nasa-osiris-rex-mission-bennu-asteroid-sample-earth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12154\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/osiris-rex.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/osiris-rex.png 620w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/osiris-rex-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a remarkable achievement, <del>the first<\/del>* successful sample return of its type. I wonder what we will learn from the material that was obtained, but I&#8217;m sure it will reveal some intriguing secrets, especially about the history and formation of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Love the way the capsule was sitting on the ground, upright, not even tilted. Could it be more picture perfect than this?<\/p>\n<p>I am also mildly (but pleasantly) surprised that I have not heard any panicmongering about a capsule bringing back extraterrestrial microbes or whatever. OK, I wasn&#8217;t specifically looking but still. It&#8217;s a relief.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>* I don&#8217;t know what possessed me when I wrote &#8220;first&#8221;; granted, OSIRIS-REx brought back a lot more material, supposedly, but the first successful such missions were the two Hayabusa missions of the Japanese Space Agency.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12153' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to mention this: A few days ago, the sample capsule of the OSIRIS-REx mission returned safely to the Earth, carrying inside a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu. This is a remarkable achievement, the first* successful sample return of its type. I wonder what we will learn from the material that was <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12153' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12158,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions\/12158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}