By Sherry Valare, on September 29th, 2016
Dr. Humberto Campins, a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Central Florida, holds his 4.6 billion year old carbonaceous chondrite meteorite sample, which was collected from northwest Africa. He works with NASA’s OSIRIS-REX mission imaging team, and will also assist in the creation of maps that will be used to […]
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By Emily Carney, on August 27th, 2016
An artist’s rendering of OSIRIS-REx at asteroid 101955 Bennu. Image Credit: NASA
The last decade has proven to be watershed years for deep space exploration. While the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft proved a small lander could be set down upon a rocky comet, other missions including NASA’s Curiosity rover, Dawn, and […]
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