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The OSIRIS-REx probe touches the asteroid and picks up some fragments

Less than five seconds: it took NASA’s Osiris-Rex probe to touch a piece of history of the solar system, the ancient asteroid Bennu, 321 million kilometers from Earth. In just a few moments everything was at stake, over ten years of preparatory work and four years of mission in space, to try to collect at least 60 grams of dust and debris that could help us reconstruct the birth of our planetary system and the origin of life. on earth. The sequence of images collected and assembled by NASA: the video it is exciting.

Here’s how it went in the story of the NASA event

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