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  On 10/20/2020 at 10:19 PM, Steamboat1874 said:

The OSIRIS-REx just tagged asteroid Bennu, gathered a sample contaminated with a super-deadly previously unknown space virus and backed away from it and will be returning to Earth from 200 million miles away.

Fucking amazing.  And, we're all going to die.

Bravo !

 

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This after one of their Martian landers was finally able to get some friction going, and started pounding its probe into Mars, just jackhammering at it.  It was the equivalent of throwing a hot dog down a hallway at first, but the probe was able to get some traction, and get some friction going, and is hoping to penetrate pretty deep, before it finishes.

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  On 10/20/2020 at 11:41 PM, atomheartbevo said:

This after one of their Martian landers was finally able to get some friction going, and started pounding its probe into Mars, just jackhammering at it.  It was the equivalent of throwing a hot dog down a hallway at first, but the probe was able to get some traction, and get some friction going, and is hoping to penetrate pretty deep, before it finishes.

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  On 10/20/2020 at 11:41 PM, atomheartbevo said:

This after one of their Martian landers was finally able to get some friction going, and started pounding its probe into Mars, just jackhammering at it.  It was the equivalent of throwing a hot dog down a hallway at first, but the probe was able to get some traction, and get some friction going, and is hoping to penetrate pretty deep, before it finishes.

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Go on...

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Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

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OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. As planned, the spacecraft will reach Bennu in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.

 

why does nasa page say it will do this in 2018?

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  On 10/21/2020 at 1:47 AM, Pato del Muerto said:

OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. As planned, the spacecraft will reach Bennu in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.

 

why does nasa page say it will do this in 2018?

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It ha been traveling with the asteroid for 2 years 

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  On 10/21/2020 at 1:34 AM, UT_OB1 said:

Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

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They took a ton of pictures but they could not send all of that information back that quickly.

They were going to start the download last night of some of them.

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  On 10/21/2020 at 1:47 AM, Pato del Muerto said:

OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. As planned, the spacecraft will reach Bennu in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.

 

why does nasa page say it will do this in 2018?

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2023: The asteroid sample has finally touched down.  NASA scientists are eagerly looking forward to studying it.

2024: The containment zone around NASA's lab is now 1000 square miles and expanding at a rapid rate. 

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  On 10/21/2020 at 3:25 AM, BradInATX said:

I remain unimpressed until we can send Bruce Willis up there to blow it up with a nuclear bomb.

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Bennu is just one in a million or more asteroids that speed through the solar system like buckshot. It’s a spin-top of rocks and boulders—so primitive that scientists believe it formed in the first 10 million years of the solar system’s history, over 4.5 billion years ago. The asteroid is the smallest body that a NASA spacecraft has ever orbited, space agency officials said. If left undisturbed in its orbit, there is a remote chance that one day in the 22nd Century it might pose a threat of collision with Earth, the scientists said.
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Yippie-Kai-yay, motherfucker

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  On 10/21/2020 at 5:03 PM, FondrenRoad said:

2023: The asteroid sample has finally touched down.  NASA scientists are eagerly looking forward to studying it.

2024: The containment zone around NASA's lab is now 1000 square miles and expanding at a rapid rate. 

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Michael Fucking Crichton knew this was going to happen, so he wrote a book about it

The Andromeda Strain - Wikipedia

and it was published in 1969

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