The OSIRIS-REx probe has finished it's 7 billion km journey to the asteroid Bennu and back but safely delivering a sample of the asteroid back to Earth. But what now? What tests are NASA planning to run on the sample? And what are we hoping to learn from it?

NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample analysis plan - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.11794.pdf


00:00 - Introduction
01:33 - OSIRIS-REx mission recap
05:08 - NASA's Sample Analysis Plan
06:55 - Hypothesis 1: Are the ingredients for life present on Bennu?
08:33 - Hypothesis 2: Did asteroids bring water to early-Earth?
10:54 - Hypothesis 3: Is Bennu a "rubble pile" like our planet formation models predict?
13:55 - Bloopers

Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV

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