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Spacecraft With Precious Asteroid Cargo Is Almost Home After 5-Billion Km Trek – ScienceAlert
In the dusty desert town of Woomera, in the South Australian desert, scientists are getting ready. On 6 December 2020, after six years in space, the Japan Aerospace…
In the dusty desert town of Woomera, in the South Australian desert, scientists are getting ready. On 6 December 2020, after six years in space, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft will finally return to Earth.
It carries with it a cargo unbelievably rare, precious, and hard-won – at least 100 milligrams of material collected from the surface of asteroidRyugu. It will drop the capsule containing the sample to Earth, the spacecraft itself continuing on to visit more asteroid…
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