Touch And Go: NASA Samples An Asteroid
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- NPR ([email protected])
- Published
- Tue 03 Nov 2020
- Episode Link
- https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/922146337/touch-and-go-nasas-delicate-mission-to-sample-asteroid-bennu
A NASA spacecraft sent out to collect a sample of rock and dust from an asteroid has nabbed so much that it's created an unexpected problem. NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce shares a cautionary tale of a scientific mission that was almost too successful.
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