NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has been hanging around the space rock named Bennu for roughly a year now, and it’s observed some interesting things over the past 12 months. The primary goal of the mission is to retrieve a sample of asteroid material and then return to Earth where scientists can study it up close. Before that can happen, NASA has to decide where on Bennu it will direct the spacecraft to touch down.
In a new mission update on NASA’s website, the space agency lays out the shortlist of candidates. The would-be sample sites, named Nightingale, Kingfisher, Osprey, and Sandpiper, were chosen based on the low risk they pose to the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
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Here are the places on asteroid Bennu where NASA might grab its sample originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 18:35:58 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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