NASA’s Osiris-Rex Achieves Historic Touchdown on Asteroid for Sample Collection 🚀
Watch NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft make history by landing on an asteroid to collect rock samples. Discover the latest in space exploration and what this means for science!
The London Standard
44.1K views • Oct 21, 2020
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A Nasa spacecraft has made an historic touchdown on an asteroid, dodging boulders the size of buildings to collect samples from its surface.
The Osiris-Rex sent back confirmation of its contact with asteroid Bennu more than 200 million miles away, drawing cheers from the mission team.
It momentarily touched asteroid’s surface to collect a handful of cosmic rubble for return to Earth.
Read more: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/osirisrex-asteroid-bennu-touchdown-a4572364.html
A Nasa spacecraft has made an historic touchdown on an asteroid, dodging boulders the size of buildings to collect samples from its surface.
The Osiris-Rex sent back confirmation of its contact with asteroid Bennu more than 200 million miles away, drawing cheers from the mission team.
It momentarily touched asteroid’s surface to collect a handful of cosmic rubble for return to Earth.
Read more: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/osirisrex-asteroid-bennu-touchdown-a4572364.html
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