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If We Want to Visit More Asteroids, We Need to Let the Spacecraft Think for Themselves


been on a tear recently. Visits by Rosetta, Osirix-REX, and Hayabusa2 have all visited small bodies and, in some cases, successfully returned samples to the Earth.

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