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NASA's final tally shows spacecraft returned double the amount of asteroid rubble (apnews.com)
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[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Double rubble is what the Hamburglar said, right? It’s enough to make a headline writers day.

This means we get to do more science. There’s surely a queue of groups who want to analyze the samples for various reasons. Hopefully this means more groups get access to some. I can’t wait for the studies to start coming out.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I think we'll likely put some more in storage, so that we can do more science on it in decades to come, when science has advanced and we can learn more from some uncontaminated samples.