Osiris-Rex: Nasa probe risks losing asteroid sample after door jams – Yahoo News Australia

Bennu – the asteroid could hold clues as to how the Solar System was formed
A Nasa probe sent to collect rock from an asteroid several hundred million kilometres from Earth has grabbed so much that samples are spilling out.
Officials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier this week, say the collection operation may have performed too well.
Pictures beamed back to Earth show a rock has wedged open the door of a container and a fraction of the sample is leaking, Nasa says.
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