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‘4 1/2 hours of mild anxiousness’: US spaceraft nears asteroid surface – Sydney Morning Herald
The mission calls for Osiris-Rex to shoot out pressurised nitrogen gas to stir up the surface, then suck up any loose pebbles or dust.
It promised to be the most harrowing part of the mission, which began with a launch from Cape Canaveral back in 2016.
“Well only be kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds, said the University of Arizona’s Heather Enos, the deputy scientist for the mission.
The sampling arm of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during a rehearsal for an approach to the “Nightingale” sample site on the surface of the asteroid Bennu. Credit:AP
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