Artemis three will be the first sample return mission of NASA's
Artemis Program, sampling rocks and regolith from one of 13
candidate regions on the moon, all located near the Lunar South Pole.
The Apollo lunar landers returned a treasure chest of samples that taught us
about the history of the solar system dating back about 4 billion years ago.
Artemis missions will explore areas near the South Pole
on the rim of the moon's oldest basin, the enormous South Pole Aitken basin.
Artemis will explore areas nearly 1 billion years
older than those explored by Apollo
lunar samples from Artemis three and future missions
will help scientists interpret the impact history of the Moon and Earth,
as well as increase our understanding of planetary processes.
OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S.
mission to collect
a sample from an asteroid will return samples from asteroid Bennu.
The rocks and dust collected will offer generations of scientists a window
into a time when the sun and planets were forming over 4.5 billion years ago.
Samples from OSIRIS-REx and Artemis could rewrite
our understanding of the evolution of the solar system.
And that's a look at your Artemis Moon Minute.