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NASA scientists recently conducted a study on asteroid rocks that their spacecraft took from a distant "potentially hazardous" asteroid..
The findings reveal that the spacecraft managed to take hold of a significant portion of the asteroid, almost more than double what was expected..
In 2023, the OSIRIS-REx capsule was taken to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston following its touchdown in the Utah desert on September 24..
NASA's mission scientists spent around two years just searching for the appropriate landing site on Bennu's craggy surface to collect samples from the asteroid...
The OSIRIS-REx mission is the first spacecraft by NASA that happened to retrieve rocky space material from the asteroid Bennu that could possibly give an insight into the earliest signs needed for life..
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