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i'm in awe
really everything went phenomenally well
i mean i can't believe we actually
pulled this off it was a good day
we spent years preparing for this
analyzing
every scenario the last 10 minutes as
the spacecraft
was descending towards the surface of
bennu was unreal
there were so many feelings running
around in my head it's sort of hard to
articulate them
in a small number of words it was this
slow motion thrill ride
we literally expected this asteroid to
look like a beach
that is not what bennu looked like at
all it's just rocks
everywhere oh my gosh those big boulders
were just not what we were expecting to
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find
there's nowhere on the surface anywhere
close to that that is free of hazards
our landing area is much smaller than
what we had anticipated
the tag site right now is about several
parking spaces
so it's a lot smaller area that we need
to target
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our approach is new the intention to
collect
a large amount of material is new
so it's about 30 centimeters in diameter
it looks like a really amazing piece of
technology
but quite honestly it's it's an air
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filter
then our job is to figure out what
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happened
asteroids actually are remnants left
over from the earliest periods in the
history of our solar system
they essentially have locked up inside
them
many of the secrets of what the solar
system was like when it first began
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asteroids like bennu are remnants of
that very very earliest part of solar
system history so
they're little time capsules that record
what kinds of chemistry was
present
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osiris-rex is going to be the largest
sample collection robotically in the
history of solar system exploration
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it's really amazing that these tiny
specks of dust cranes can tell you so
much about
how our universe formed how our solar
system formed
how asteroids like bennu formed and how
earthworms
we need to keep exploring it really goes
a long way into understanding who we are
how we got here and what our long-term
prospects are
on this planet