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The Landing on 101955 Bennu
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Caption NASA:" On October 20, 2020, after a careful approach to the boulder-strewn Surface, the OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft's arm reached out and touched Asteroid Bennu.
Dubbed a Touch-And-Go (TAG) sampling event, the 30 cm wide sampling head (TAGSAM) appears to crush some of the rocks in this snapshot. The close-up scene was recorded by the spacecraft's SamCam some 321 million kilometers from planet Earth, just after surface contact.
One second later, the Spacecraft fired Nitrogen gas from a bottle intended to blow a substantial amount of Bennu's regolith into the sampling head, collecting the loose surface material. Data show the Spacecraft spent approximately 5 more seconds in contact with Bennu's Nightingale sample site and then performed its back-away burn. Timelapse frames from SamCam reveal the aftermath".
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