Team Photo of Asteroid Bennu Researchers at NASA Goddard

At left, Jason Dworkin, project scientist for NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) holds a vial demonstrating “asteroid tea,” made by hydrating small, ground samples of asteroids and meteorites for study at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. on Jan. 28, 2025. Scientists in Goddard’s astrobiology lab are studying samples of asteroid Bennu brought to Earth by OSIRIS-REx. Looking on, from left to right: Hannah McLain, Danielle Simkus, Jamie Elsila Cook, Angel Mojarro, José Aponte, Danny Glavin, and Eric Parker. Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who had a hand in studying the asteroid Bennu sample delivered to Earth by the agency's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission.

Photographer Vivian Renkey
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