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Japanese space capsule carrying pristine asteroid samples lands in Australia – Space.com
Japan has done it again.
For the second time ever, humanity has brought asteroid samples down to Earth.
A small capsule bearing pristine pieces of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu
touched down early this afternoon (Dec. 5) within the remote and rugged Woomera Prohibited Area, about 310 miles (500 kilometers) northwest of the South Australian capital of Adelaide.
The samples were snagged millions of miles from Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission
, which studied the 3,000-foot-wide (900 meters) Ryugu up close from June 2018…
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