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Humans Poked an Asteroid. Next Century, the Asteroid Might Poke Back – autoevolution
Back in 2016, humanity launched into the void a spacecraft called OSIRIS-Rex. The moniker stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation,…
The machine reached its target, asteroid Bennu in 2018, and quickly got to work. It was not that quick on ending its work, though, as it took OSIRIS-REx the better part of three years to complete its tasks. Using an instrument called TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism),…
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