OSIRIS-REx sample collector
Captured by the spacecraft's SamCam camera on Oct. 22, 2020, this series of three images shows that the sampler head on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is full of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. They show also that some of these particles are slowly escaping the
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A rotating mosaic of asteroid Bennu, composed of images captured by NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft over a four-hour period on December 2, 2018. NASA/Goddard/University of...
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There is absolutely nothing inherently special about the asteroid Bennu. A loosely-packed agglomeration of dust and rock about as big across as the Empire State Building...
Time Magazine 2020-10-22NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Punched an Asteroid in the Name of Science. Here's What the Mission Could Teach Us
There is absolutely nothing inherently special about the asteroid Bennu. A loosely-packed agglomeration of dust and rock about as big across as the Empire State Building...
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