Kristen and I love space story.
So this is going to be a good one for the first time in its history.
NASA successfully brought back samples of an asteroid 200 million miles away.
It's going to be studied here on earth.
A capsule containing the samples touched down in the Utah Desert Sunday morning,
capping off the seven year
rex mission.
Now,
the samples which are older than the earth itself were collected from an asteroid.
The size of the Empire State Building, it's called be
scientists believe that studying their chemical and physical properties
could offer clues about the formation of our solar system
and the origins of life.
Now, after being stored in a temporary clean room,
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 know you can't wait to learn more. Kristen. I'm the same way.
And by the way, if you just look at this, I'm reading about it,
it's really just a few black pebbles and dirt.
But in reality,
it is older than the planet Earth and apparently when
they were keeping it in that safe safe room yesterday,
they had it under
nitrogen just to make sure it would stay pure and untouched
as it makes its way to the Johnson Kennedy Space Center.
It is amazing. Right.
I mean, you give the scientists so much credit how,
just from those tiny little pieces, as you mentioned, Anna, they can glean so much.
I'm interested to see what they find. Me too. We'll keep an eye on it.