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Watch Live: NASA sends an asteroid sample back to Earth
After traveling billions of miles for seven years to touch an asteroid and bring a sample home, NASA’s Osiris-REx mission has finally sent its precious contents hurtling toward Earth’s atmosphere. The spacecraft successfully released a sample canister holding about a cupful asteroid rock on as it passed within 63,000 miles
Tracking health threats, one sewage sample at a time
A sewage treatment plant in Norfolk, Va., is one of the sites where workers collect wastewater samples to test for COVID trends in the nearby community. Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption toggle caption Meredith Rizzo/NPR A sewage treatment plant in Norfolk, Va., is one of the sites where workers collect wastewater
A Road Trip to Sample America’s Many, Many Music Festivals
Four classical music festivals. Three children. Two exhausted parents, with a brave grandfather in tow. One bedraggled minivan. It’ll be fun, my wife promised me. Surprisingly, it was. While some of my colleagues have been taking in the mighty festivals of Europe over the past few weeks — premieres in
NASA is simply now opening a vacuum-sealed pattern it took from the moon 50 years in the past
Astronaut and geologist Harrison Schmitt is seen within the Lunar Roving Car throughout NASA’s Apollo 17 mission on Dec. 13, 1972. A lunar soil pattern collected on the mission has remained sealed till now. Eugene A. Cernan – NASA/AFP by way of Getty Photographs disguise caption toggle caption Eugene A.