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NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe overflows with asteroid Bennu sample [i]NASA's first attempt at collecting a sample from the surface of an asteroid appears to have been so successful that its probe is overflowing with flakes of soil and stone. Three days after the OSIRIS-REx robotic spacecraft descended to the small asteroid Bennu, extended its robotic arm and "tagged" the rocky body to gather up a sample, the mission's lead scientist said the Touch-And-Go (TAG) maneuver may have been "almost too successful." "This is the mission that keeps on surprising us and certainly that was the case [here]," Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson, said in a call with reporters on Friday (Oct. 23). "We do have abundant visual evidence that there is a substantial mass of Bennu regolith."[/i]
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