NASA displayed the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample on Wednesday, marking the first time it has been showcased since landing at the Johnson Space Center in Houston
During its October 20, 2020, sample collection event, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, collected a substantial amount of material
In reviewing these images, the OSIRIS-REx team noticed both that the head appeared to be full of asteroid particles, and that some of these particles appeared to be escaping slowly from the sample collector.