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Asteroid samples escaping NASA spacecraft – The New Daily
A Nasa operation has collected so much material from the asteroid Bennu that a spacecraft’s robot arm is jammed open, and particles are being lost.
A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space.
The spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched asteroid Bennu this week, NASA’s first attempt at such a mission.
The mission’s lead scientist, Dante Lauretta, said the operation collected far more material than expected – hundreds of grams – for taking back to Earth. However, the sample container on the end of the robot arm penetrated so deeply into the asteroid and with…
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