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From 185 Million Miles Away

Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:10 pm
by Philip
Yesterday: First underground soil samples taken from an asteroid - and the probe will return to earth in 2020:

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... ample.html

Pretty incredible accomplishment!

It's really astonishing the places earth spacecraft have been:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_l ... ial_bodies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_e ... l_orbiters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberat ... ial_bodies