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Incredible video of NASA’s OSIRIS REx doing a quick tap-and-go on asteroid Bennu, showing how it’s exterior is made up of loosely packed rock, akin to a plastic ball pit. Had they not immediately fired thrusters, it would have continued plummeting straight down into the asteroid


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