Sunday Stamps: Science

 Good day, and welcome to my blog on stamps.  It is a cool day in the American Midwest, and the clouds are coming and going.  It's time for Sunday Stamps.

The theme this week is Science and I am lucky that the US Postal Service just released this stamp:

A NASA space mission, that has been spectacularly successful.  Osiris-Rex stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer.  It went to the asteroid Bennu and collected over 8 - 9 ounces of sample from the surface, and the sample package came back to Earth, while the satellite continued on to the next part of the mission.  The stamp shows the entry of the sample capsule into the atmosphere Sept. 24, 2023.  Even with the parachute it was a bit of a hard landing in the Utah desert but the sample survived, and has been opened and the first pieces taken out.

It is thought that this sample contains pristine parts of the early Solar System, over 4.5 billion years old.

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