Touch And Go: NASA Samples An Asteroid - a podcast by NPR
from 2020-11-03T04:00:31
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A NASA spacecraft sent out to collect a sample of rock and dust from an asteroid has nabbed so much that it's created an unexpected problem. NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce shares a cautionary tale of a scientific mission that was almost too successful.
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