´s fetched from deep space parachuted into the desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.In a flyby of Earth, released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid.Scientists estimate the capsule holds at least a from the carbon-rich asteroid known as Bennu, but won´t know for sure until the container is opened. Some when the spacecraft scooped up too much and rocks jammed the container´s lid during collection three years ago.
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