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Japan’s Hayabusa2 delivers rock samples from asteroid Ryugu – Aljazeera.com
Scientists retrieve a Japanese space capsule carrying cargo of asteroid dust in Australia’s Woomera desert.
Japans space agency has retrieved a capsule carrying the first rock samples from beneath the surface of an asteroid that scientists say could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on our planet.
The spacecraft Hayabusa2 released the small capsule on Saturday and sent it towards Earth to deliver samples from the asteroid Ryugu, about 300 million kilometres (180 million miles), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said.
The capsule collection work at the landing site was…
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