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NASA asteroid-sampling spacecraft will go look at ‘the mess it made’ – CNET
Osiris-Rex enthusiastically snagged a bit of asteroid Bennu and NASA wants to examine the mark it left behind.
The moment Osiris-Rex touched Bennu’s surface.
NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
In October 2020, NASA’sOsiris-Rex spacecraft took a bite out of asteroid Bennu. Before Osiris-Rex returns to Earth to deliver its bounty, it’s going to revisit the scene of the heist.The asteroid-investigating spacecraft will perform one final very close flyby of Bennu on Wednesday to discover “the extent of the mess it made,” NASA announced Thursday.
Osiris-Rex was a little greedy during the sample capture operation,…
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