NASA probe leaking asteroid samples after hearty collection

The robotic arm of the probe, OSIRIS-REx, on Tuesday night kicked up a debris cloud of rocks on Bennu, a skyscraper-sized asteroid some 200 million miles from Earth and trapped the material in a collection device for the return to Earth.

But images of the spacecraft’s collection head beamed back to ground control revealed it had caught more material than scientists anticipated and was spewing an excess of flaky asteroid rocks into space. The leakage had the OSIRIS-REx mission team scrambling to stow the collection device to prevent additional spillage.”Time is of the essence,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, told reporters.

But with the door lodged open by a rock and the “concerning” images of sample spillage, “we’re almost the victim of our own success here,” he added. The roughly $800 million, minivan-sized OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, launched in 2016 to grab and return the first U.S. sample of pristine asteroid materials. Japan is the only other country to have accomplished such a feat.Asteroids are among the leftover debris from the solar system’s formation some 4.5 billion years ago.

Machines won’t replace people anytime soon.

Shut the front door.

One Billion dollars and they made a door mechanism to capture the dirt. Surely they must have thought that it might get stuck open. Money would have been better spent trying to solve climate change problems on earth.

I am 10000% for space exploration, but can’t we fix some problems in our country (on Earth) first 🤷🏼‍♂️

The minds these people have. Thank you for your contribution to humanity.

What is meant by 'leaking asteroid samples'?

So what if we know the origin of life?

Polluting space. Great.

Not to worry , it can collect again . What ever remain will be enough for us.

Uhhh 🤔 hope that dirt doesn’t have any space germs 🦠. 😂. Leave it up to Trump’s leadership to bring back a space Coronavirus 🦠😅😅😅😅😅

Haha, what a great excuse, and a big boulder lie! 'Houston, we did land and collected the samples, but it has leaked away. It is not our fault....'

Yeah can someone get up there and close that bloody door?

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So it's like a kid with too much Halloween candy. Got it 🎃

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Same thing happened at my last physical.

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