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NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

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NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will drop a capsule of pristine asteroid material in the Utah desert on September 24. The astro-material may provide insights into how planets formed, what materials were present in the early Solar System, and how life on the earth began. OSIRIS-Rex had to precisely choreograph a celestial…

"The discovery signals a potentially habitable environment in the ocean of Europa," according to the Webb Space Telescope's website.

But like a college kid dropping off their laundry, the spaceship is just passing through on its way to another adventure.

The sample, which was collected as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission, will return to Earth on Sunday.

Capsule will contain some of oldest materials formed in solar system

On Sunday, NASA will finally witness the descent of its first asteroid sample retrieval mission.

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

The capsule collected a dust sample from a distant asteroid three years ago and scientists are about to get their first chance to look at it