NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaves mess after grabbing asteroid samples
URL copied 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...
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