This is a pretty cool story for the first time in its history.
NASA successfully brought back samples of an asteroid 200 million miles away
to be studied right here on earth.
A capsule containing the samples touched down in the Utah Desert Sunday.
Capping off the seven year
Osoria rex mission.
The samples which by the way are older than the
earth itself were collected from an asteroid.
The size of the Empire State Building. It's called
nu scientists believe that studying their
chemical and physical properties could offer clues
about the formation of our solar system and the origins of life.
After being stored in a temporary clean room,
the samples are being transported today to the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Researchers expect to get their first look at them sometime today or tomorrow.
I wonder what we'll learn.