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Asteroid chips that look like charcoal sent back to Earth by Japanese space probe – CBS News
Japanese scientists hope they offer clues to origins of solar system and life on Earth.
Tokyo — They resemble small fragments of charcoal, but the soil samples collected from an asteroid and returned to Earth by a Japanese spacecraft were hardly disappointing.
The samples Japanese space officials described Thursday are as big as 0.4 inch and rock hard, not breaking when picked up or poured into another container. Smaller black, sandy granules the spacecraft collected and returned separately were described last week.
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft got the two sets of samples last year from…
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