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Assessing the Sampleability of Bennu’s Surface for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, collected a sample from the surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and will deliver it to Earth in September 2023. Selecting a sample collection site on Bennu’s surface was challenging due to the surprising lack of large ponded d...
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