After a four-year journey, NASA’s robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex will descend to asteroid Bennu’s boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples in a precision operation 200 million miles (330 million kilometers) from Earth.
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Source: Phys.org