NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brings asteroid samples back to Earth
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Here’s the final sample material from the Bennu asteroid.
After the sample was returned last year and NASA scientists went through some tribulation to break into the canister containing it, they say they gathered 121.6 grams of asteroid bits from Bennu.
NASA had hoped to gather at least 60 grams of material from the asteroid when its OSIRIS-REx mission craft punched its surface in 2020.
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