NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaves mess after grabbing astero

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NASA spacecraft leaves mess after grabbing asteroid samples.
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spacecraft left a mess at an asteroid when it grabbed a load of rubble last year for return to Earth, new pictures revealed on Thursday.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made one final flyby of asteroid Bennu on April 7 to take photos of the disturbance left by October's sample collection.
A depression is visible where Osiris-Rex penetrated the asteroid's surface. Boulders were hurled by the pressurized nitrogen gas that was fired at the ground to churn up material for vacuuming, and by the spacecraft's getaway thruster.

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