A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid streaked through Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday and parachuted into the Utah desert, delivering the celestial specimen to scientists. The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is …
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A NASA spacecraft captured soil samples from an asteroid that may come close to hitting Earth in the next 200 years and parachuted the capsule into a Utah desert Sunday morning. The flyover marked a successful mission for NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft, which dropped the samples from the asteroid Bennu while flying about 63,000 miles from …
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A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid streaked through Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday and parachuted into the Utah desert, delivering the celestial specimen to scientists. NASA safety team members prepare the Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return craft sitting in the Utah desert at Dugway.(AFP) The …
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PRIMORDIAL RELIC Like other asteroids, Bennu is a relic of the early solar system. Because its present-day chemistry and mineralogy are virtually unchanged since forming about 4.5 billion years ago, it holds valuable clues to the origins and development of rocky planets such as Earth. It may even contain organic molecules similar to those necessary …
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OSIRIS-REx was launched in September 2016 and reached Bennu in 2018 Utah: A NASA space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago hurtled toward Earth this weekend headed for a fiery plunge through the atmosphere and a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday. …
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The Utah couple who bought a remodeled mansion from Kouri Richins, who penned a book about grief after allegedly murdering her husband, blame the mom for their near-financial ruin. Taryn and Alec Wright said they’ve been plagued with “hazardous” levels of mold, an onslaught of mysterious medical problems and endless financial stressors in the three …
The mayor of a Utah city was spit on and punched Tuesday following a city council meeting where the official called out his attacker’s reporter mother who wrote several articles about him. David Young, the mayor of Orem, was standing outside of City Hall alongside several other people when Linnea Pugmire walked up to the …
A Utah author on trial for her husband’s murder after allegedly spiking a Moscow mule with a fatal dose of fentanyl is now accused of witness tampering, according to recently filed court documents. Kouri Richins is specifically accused of concocting a false narrative by requesting that her brother, Ronald Darden, tell defense counsel a specific …
More than two dozen people — including a two-month-old baby — desperately leaped into a Utah lake Wednesday after their houseboat burst into flames. Hair-raising footage shows a man passing the tiny infant out of the doomed vessel to a family member floating in the water as the intense fire rages at the bow. Heavy …
Ruby Franke, the YouTuber arrested on felony child abuse chargeswas briefly placed in the medical block at a Utah county jail due to an unknown health issue. According to Washington County jail records obtained by People Monday, Franke was transferred to the medical block Friday before returning to the usual holding block after the weekend. …
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ST. GEORGE, UTAH — Elder Matthew S. Holland, a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, stood in a small “Sealing Room” at the church’s just-renovated St. George Utah Temple and spoke about a ritual that connected decades of his family’s history. “There is not a more sacred spot on the …
Maloy had the backing of the Utah Republican Party. She spent much of her campaign introducing herself as the only candidate from rural southern Utah — a message that ultimately drew voters in. “As I’ve said throughout this race, I will represent the entire district,” Maloy said in a statement on Wednesday night. “There will …
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