OSIRIS-REx Collected So Much Material, the Sample Capsule Overflowed. Time to Bring it All Home.
OSIRIS-REx Collected So Much Material, the Sample Capsule Overflowed. Time to Bring it All Home.
By Nancy Atkinson
October 27, 2020 at 09:27PM
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By Nancy Atkinson
Is there such as thing as too much asteroid? Scientists and engineers for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx decided to perform an “early stow” of the sample from Asteroid Bennu collected by the spacecraft on October 20, because the collection container is full-to-overflowing, possibly jamming the collector head from sealing shut. Images sent back from OSIRIS-REx on Oct. …
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