NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission: Retrieving Asteroid Samples from Utah's Desert

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will land in the Utah desert on September 24. The mission aims to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu, estimated to be around 4.5 billion years old, in order to understand the origin of life in the universe. The sample, described as a "scientific time capsule," will be analyzed to gain insights into the formation of our solar system. The landing site in Utah has been chosen due to its previous use as a landing site for other space missions.