05-04-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com

NASA’s asteroid probe shot Bennu with a laser, and this is the result

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has been steadily progressing since the spacecraft arrived at the diamond-shaped space rock known as Bennu a few months back, but not everything has gone completely to plan.The rock ended up being far more, well, dirty than NASA originally expected. Bennu's surface is absolutely packed with debris, posing a challenge for NASA's team that still has to decide where to have the probe touch down on the asteroid to collect samples. Now, using a laser instrument built into OS
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