WASHINGTON - A Nasa spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday , grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home.
The probe will send back images of the sample collection on Wednesday and throughout the week so scientists can examine how much material was retrieved and determine whether the probe will need to make another collection attempt. "Everything went just exactly perfect," Dante Lauretta, Osiris-Rex principal investigator from the University of Arizona, Tucson, said on a Nasa live feed from Lockheed's mission support building."We have overcome the amazing challenges that this asteroid has thrown at us, and the spacecraft appears to have operated flawlessly."
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