The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is now headed back to Earth (officially on May 10), bringing some bits and pieces of the asteroid it orbited and landed on (briefly) with it.
OSIRIS-REx Bids Farewell to Asteroid Bennu
So in roughly 2 1/2 years, we'll finally get to see what it got.
This picture below (which I only saw today) shows the sampling site. The hole that was made is the darker area in the center with lighter colored rocks strewn around it.
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