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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sriamerican" data-source="post: 25777768" data-attributes="member: 575658"><img src="https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/9146/aHeDeq.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a historic landing on the asteroid Bennu's surface Tuesday night</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Around 6.15pm OSIRIS-Rex descended onto the asteroid and extended its 11-foot robot arm, which collected rocks and dirt samples from the surface for mere seconds, before the craft launched back into space   </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This marks the first time the US has gathered samples from an asteroid  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Asteroid contains material from the early solar system and could provide insight into origin of life on Earth  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The lengthy descent mission took 4.5 hours and the samples will return to Earth by 2023</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bennu is located more than 200 million miles away from Earth </li> </ul><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8860973/NASAs-OSIRIS-REx-spacecraft-steadily-descends-asteroid-Bennu.html" target="_blank">for the full story click here</a></blockquote>

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