A NASA spacecraft that took fragments of asteroids is leaking them to the planet as it was heading home, the space agency said.
Significant samples were taken in the investigation that a stone was hung in front of the container door, meaning it was falling back into space.
Last week NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft landed on the asteroid Bennu, kicking a cloud of rock debris inside its robotic arm. They will then be transported to Earth for research here.
But NASA announced that it has captured a lot of rocks and is now working to prevent them from falling into space.
In the leak, the OSIRIS-Rex mission team roamed the stove to stove the storage device to prevent excess spillage.
“Time is of the essence,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, told reporters.
Zurbuchen said mission teams will leave their stock to measure how much material they collect according to the original plan and proceed to the stove stage, a delicate process of keeping the sample storage container in safe condition inside the spacecraft without joking the more valuable material.
NASA will not know how much material it collected until the sample capsule returns in 2023. Troubleshooting will make mission leaders more committed to abandoning the possibility of re-collecting and launching spacecraft ???? .
Confirming the size of Hardick’s sample, OSIRIS-Rex’s principle investigator Dante Lauretta told reporters, “Quite frankly, we couldn’t experiment with more storage.”
But, the door opened through the rock and with “related” images of the sample spillage, “we almost suffered our success here,” he added.
Approximately 800 million, the minivan-sized OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was the first U.S. spacecraft of American origin. Launched in 2016 to capture and return samples. Japan is the only other country to have achieved this feat.
Asteroids about 4.5. billion billion years ago solar system â ???? Contains debris remaining from the formation of. One specimen could hold the key to the origin of life on Earth, scientists say.
Additional reporting by Reuters
