One Cool Thing: NASA Spacecraft Fetches A Rock From Nearby Asteroid
NASA announced that its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touched down on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu after spending two years orbiting it. Its task was to grab a sample from the asteroid’s surface with its robotic arm. Bennu sits 200 million miles from Earth (so close) and NASA’s leadership was thrilled with this latest “first” — the […]
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