Nasa’s seven-year mission brings samples back to Earth

A spacecraft has delivered asteroid samples to Earth after travelling through deep space for seven years.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft flew close to Earth on Sunday and dropped a capsule carrying 250 grams of soil from the asteroid Bennu, a celestial object that could help scientists learn more about the formation of the Solar System.

It carried out a parachute-assisted landing in a remote Utah desert and was then transported in a helicopter to Texas, so it could be secured inside a clean room.

The US has now become the second country, after Japan, to bring back asteroid samples.

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