Jason Dworkin, project scientist for OSIRIS-REx at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, views a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample in the center's astrobiology lab under microscope in November 2023, shortly after it arrived from the curation team at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Credit: NASA/Molly Wasser
NASA will brief media at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, to provide an update on science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security - Regolith Explorer) mission, which delivered a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in September 2023.
Audio of the media call will stream live on the agency's website.
Participants in the teleconference include:
- Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Danny Glavin, senior scientist for sample return, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland
- Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx project scientist, NASA Goddard
- Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites, Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington
- Sara Russell, cosmic mineralogist, Natural History Museum, London
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