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Japanese spacecraft’s gifts: Asteroid chips like charcoal | Offbeat – Gulf News
The soil samples collected from an asteroid and returned to Earth are hardly disappointing
Optical microscope photo provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows soil samples, seen inside C compartment of the capsule brought back by Hayabusa2, in Sagamihara, near Tokyo.
Image Credit: AP
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 1 centimeter and rock hard, not breaking…
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