Japan's Hayabusa2 makes history by successfully collecting samples from distant asteroid Ryugu TechSpot

JAXA's Hayabusa2 project is an asteroid sample-return mission like NASA's OSIRIS-REx. While the latter's destination is the Bennu asteroid, the Japanese probe is meant to collect samples from Ryugu (which means Dragon Palace), an asteroid that orbits the Sun between Earth and Mars. Ambitious space missions like these expand our...





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