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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

NASA is developing a cannon harpoon to collect comet samples

NASA has managed to recover rock samples from the Moon by actually landing on it. However, that’s quite a big, slow moving target with relatively flat surfaces on which to land a spacecraft. Recovering samples from fast moving comets, which are much smaller, throw off ice and rock as they travel, and have much more [...]


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