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.

If one of the rocks from their sample comes and hits my house, do they gotta pay?

Is this just a ultra high res black and white picture of a potato?

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Wait a minute. So the planet is in isolation and quarantine and they are sending a rocket of leaking outer space material back to earth. What was that movie called?

People always ask, why do we send humans into space when we have automated probes? THIS is the answer. Humans are the most versatile problem-solvers and useful pair of hands ever. We wouldn’t be dribbling asteroid dust across the universe if a human were there to fix it!

Well, you just turn yourself around and march right back to that asteroid and get a new sample, young probe! Or no supper for you!

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Lockheed Martin designed it? All they're good at is lobbying.

NASA should understand collecting artifacts is not for this century.....there is no time we have to start mining asteroids then moon, mars and so on to survive

I strongly recommend watching the NOVA episode on PBS concerning this mission before replying with such ignorant statements! 🙄

So we're littering?

“It’s definitely a rock” - A probe

Ah, please stop. 😐

Smash and grab is not generally the best way to do science. NASA

It’s the size of a refrigerator. Don’t panic please

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