NASA Releases First Data from OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission

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OSIRIS-REx Findings
OSIRIS-REx has been busy ever since it arrived at the asteroid Bennu on December 3. The latest updates from NASA reveal that the space rock is porous, blue, and covered in massive boulders. More excitingly, they discovered evidence that Bennu’s minerals interacted with water at some point in its distant past.

During a press conference today at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team revealed the first results from their spacecraft’s ong

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