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Tag: Bennu asteroid

  • Wednesday, October 21st 2020 - 09:22 UTC

    NASA feat: spacecraft grabs a sample of rocks from an asteroid and begins to send back images

    Bennu, located more than 100 million miles from Earth and formed in the early days of our solar system, could hold clues to the origins of life on Earth

    NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, extended its 3.35m robotic arm toward a flat patch of gravel near Bennu’s north pole and plucked the sample of rocks, the space agency's first handful of pristine asteroid rocks.