How NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its 1st close encounter with the sun

An animation of NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX passing in front of the sun. OSIRIS-APEX emerged “unscathed” from its closest-ever brush past our sun on Jan. 2, scientists announced on Tuesday (May 28). The probe, originally known as OSIRIS-REx , aced its sample-return mission to the asteroid Bennu and is now headed […]

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