If NASA ever manages to pry open the sample canister, that is.
We’ve all been there: You’re getting some peanut butter, or looking to nosh a nice pickle, when you find your wrist strength is insufficient to get at the jar’s delicious contents. That’s more or less
’s vexing issue with the OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples—though, of course, that canister’s contents aren’t for eating. That’s right. was able to launch a $1.16 billion mission to an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth, retrieve crumbly bits of space rock, and bring them all the way back to our humble habitable world. And now it can’t open the jar. Specifically, two fasteners on TAGSAM are refusing to yield to the currently available tools. Scientists hope the samples asteroid Bennu could hold clues to the formation of the solar system and the origins of life, so they’re understandably eager to get things moving.
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