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NASA Reveals Incredible Footage Of OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Landing – Forbes

NASA made history earlier this week with its first-ever successful landing on an asteroid, and now images returned by the spacecraft have revealed what happened…

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The spacecraft’s sampling arm kicked up lots of material from Bennu’s surface
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NASA made history earlier this week with its first-ever successful landing on an asteroid, and now images returned by the spacecraft have revealed what happened in the dramatic touchdown.
On Tuesday, October 20, NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touched the surface of asteroid Bennu, more than 300 million kilometers from Earth, for a brief six seconds with an extended arm.
While…

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