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Rubble on the double: a spacecraft’s dash for asteroid dust News

by David Shaw, 5 November 2020 | 2 comments

Metalic box like space craft, standing in one leg on a dark flat surface.

For almost two years, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been orbiting an asteroid named 101955 Bennu. It’s done tons of science, scanning the rock from many angles. Right now, OSIRIS-REx is preparing to head back to Earth. But before leaving Bennu, the spacecraft reached out and touched the asteroid.

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