A NASA Spacecraft Comes Home With an Asteroid Gift for Earth

"A brown-and-white capsule that spent the last seven years swooping through the solar system — and sojourning at an asteroid — has finally come home. And it has brought a cosmic souvenir: a cache of space rock that scientists are hungry to get their hands on. On Sunday morning, those scientists waited eagerly as the pod shot through Earth’s atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour. It gently parachuted down into the damp desert landscape of the Utah Test and Training Range, about 80 miles west of Salt Lake City, at 8:52 a.m. local time. ..."

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