Incredible Technology: Space 'Harpoons' Could Snatch Samples of Asteroids and Moons
Why bother landing softly on an alien world to collect samples if you can just snag material with a harpoon from afar? Using a set of long-lined, hard-hitting harpoons would allow a mission to grab large samples from multiple locations on an asteroid or moon — and to get them from beneath the surface, where some of the most interesting material lies, say researchers developing the idea.
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