After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble.
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-touch-and-go-spacecraft-sampling-asteroid.html