NASA has successfully returned a 250-gram sample of dirt from a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. Scientists around the world will study the rock particles to see if they contain clues to the origins of life on our planet.
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00:12 NASA's first ever asteroid sample return. It has been incredible.
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00:23 We took the sample in October 2020.
00:26 We left a couple months later and it took all the rest of that time to come back to the Earth.
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00:53 So we believe that we're bringing back that kind of material.
00:56 Literally maybe representatives of the seeds of life that these asteroids delivered at the beginning of our planet
01:03 that led to this amazing biosphere, biological evolution,
01:07 and to us being here today to look back on that amazing history.
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