Download After 7 Years, NASA's OSIRIS-REx Returns to Earth... With Souvenirs! (MP3, 10.7MB)

NASA sent OSIRIS-REx into space to land on an asteroid and return with a sample of it. A container full of asteroid stuff landed in Utah. LPL's Assistant Professor Jessica Barnes, a co-investigator on the OSIRIS-REx mission and a research team lead, talks about the sample return and what's next.

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Dr. Jessica Barnes is an Assistant Professor at LPL. She is a co-investigator on the OSIRIS-REx mission. In this presentation, she talks about the OSIRIS-REx sample return and what's next for the spacecraft and for the sample analysis.