TXST alum shares views of rare NASA asteroid samples with the world

TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security Regolith Explorer) mission returned samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth, making it the first U.S. space mission to accomplish such a feat.

Though few people will ever get to analyze the asteroid samples, scientists across the globe can study high-resolution images of those samples thanks to the work of Texas State University alum Joseph Aebersold, a 2016 geographic information science graduate.