00:00You ready to see the results of the mission?
00:03Take a peek.
00:12So the first analysis shows samples that contain abundant water in the form of hydrated as both minerals and organic molecules.
00:31And at nearly 5% carbon by weight, carbon being the central element of life, far exceeding our goal of 60 grams.
00:46This is the biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever returned to Earth.
00:52And why are we doing this?
00:56Because at NASA, we are trying to find out who we are, what we are, where we came from.
01:05And this mission will help our scientists investigate planet formation for generations to come.
01:13And it's going to deepen our understanding of our solar system.
01:17With that nitrogen flow attached, the next day, Monday, September 25th, it was flown from Utah to Edmonton Air Force Base
01:26and brought here to bed link those parts off to get a little further in so that we can then distribute that sample into bulk sample handling trays,
01:35which are triangular and look sort of like deep dish.
01:38Bounty of sample on our hands already, and we're not even inside of TAGSAM.
01:42The views here are amazing of this sample, and they're only
01:46The science canister, that's like the vault that protected the sample on the return journey home.
01:51And sitting inside there is the TAGSAM.
01:53That's the device that actually touched the surface of Bennu, collected sample, kind of like a vacuum cleaner.
02:00The first panel there in the upper left, those are the water-bearing clay minerals, and they have this fibrous kind of structure.
02:08We call this serpentine because they look like serpents or snakes inside the sample.
02:13And they have water X-ray computed tomography.
02:16It's like a CAT scan.
02:18So without cutting into the rock, we can actually look inside.
02:21We can see the textures and the distributions of the minerals.
02:24This helps us intelligently select areas where we want to make cuts so that we get the most exciting science results.
02:30It also gives us a good sense of the size and shape of the particle.
02:34This is the biggest one.
02:35It's about two millimeters across, and you can see here in red those sulfide minerals.
02:41And then finally, the last panel there, panel E, just shows two very different kinds of rocks sitting next to each other.
02:48One of our key hypotheses is that they're in the center just to the right, kind of a light bluish fluorescence.
02:53That's from a carbonate mineral, so carbon locked up in this mineral grain.
02:57But then you see these small specks of light.
02:59It looks like stars, right, glowing.
03:01This is organic matter.
03:03In just a few moments, we're going to reach peak heating and peak deceleration.
03:08That's at 32 G-forces, punishing G-force on our SRC, a phenomenal view of that streaking SRC coming in across the sky.
03:24That parachute deployment was given internally by the spacecraft.
03:27All of what you're seeing now is autonomous onboard that SRC.
03:31The team on the WB-57.
03:36Touchdown. I repeat, DDL. SRC has touchdown.
03:42And touchdown of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule.
03:45A journey of a billion miles to asteroid Bennu and back has come to an end.
03:50Approach the sample.
03:52Check the area for any unexploded ordinances, UXOs, that could possibly be out there on the range.
03:58As I mentioned, that first person on scene will be the on-scene commander, Stu Wiley.
04:03He'll be doing an environmental sweep.
04:05We're getting a nice close-up view.
04:06You can see that parachute disconnected.
04:08You can see some of the wiring of it.
04:10There, just a little, are pieces of the asteroid Bennu.
04:14We'll be getting access to those samples in just a few days.
04:17And actually seeing exactly what we got from the asteroid Regolith.
04:23Helo-1 has landed at the recovery site.
04:27So our first helicopter, you just heard confirmation, and you can see visual confirmation of that landing.
04:31We're maybe about 100, 200 feet away.
04:52NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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