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View from above of a desert landscape with brush. The red and white striped parachute that slowed the descent of the Sample Return Capsule is on the ground near the upper left and the black capsule is near the center of the image.

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Lands in the Utah Desert

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

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