Why Scooping an Asteroid Sample Is Harder Than It Looks

Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 16, 2020

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descends toward the surface of Bennu on Oct. 20, it will be the first time that a U.S.-led mission attempts to pick up a sample of pristine material from an asteroid. Bennu is likely an extraterrestrial accumulation of the original leftovers from the formation of our solar system. The University of Arizona-led mission to sample an asteroid many millions of