A NASA spacecraft more than 200 million miles away tucks asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth after losing some of its precious loot.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft crushed rocks and sent rubble flying as it briefly touched an asteroid, a strong indication that it had succeeded in collecting samples.
This is the first U.S. mission to go after asteroid samples. Japan has done it twice at other space rocks and expects itsRich in carbon, the solar-orbiting Bennu is believed to hold the preserved building blocks of the solar system. Scientists said the remnants can help explain how our solar system’s planets formed billions of years ago and how life on Earth came to be.
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