NASAs OSIRIS REx Mission Ends Up With More Than It Expected
NASA s OSIRIS REx spacecraft was supposed to grab a sample of the asteroid Bennu so that it could be returned to Earth for analysis. The spacecraft grabbed the sample on Tuesday, but, it s taken a few days to actually get photos of the tool and now it s realized they have a problem with too much material. Larger pieces of regolith have kept the sample head from closing properly, so material is slowly being lost. As a result, the mission operators are skipping past a number of important tests and going strai
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