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Tuesday, 15 April 2014

OSIRIS-REx Wants to Lasso an Asteroid to Explain Life on Earth


NASA has a plan to better explore how our own local star system, and life within it, got started. It wants to intercept, study, and sample a passing asteroid. The only thing more impressive than this mission's astronomical level of precision is how the space agency somehow shoehorned "Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer" into a functional acronym.


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