Osiris-REx has landed

[brian livesey]

To the delight of NASA controllers, it's asteroid probe to asteroid Bennu, launched in 2018, has landed on the stony body and attempted to take a surface sample of 60g.. If the first sampling is too small, there's enough fuel to make two more attempts.

[Brian]

https://www.asteroidmission.org/?attach ... 26458#main

Close-up of the sampling of the rubble-pile surface