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Hayabusa2 comes home: remarkable space probe could open another window into how life originated – The Guardian
The six-year round trip to an asteroid named Ryugu will end in the red sands of Woomera, Australia
SpaceThe six-year round trip to an asteroid named Ryugu will end in the red sands of Woomera, Australia
The Japanese space agencys remarkable Hayabusa2 mission will on Sunday deliver the second-ever artificially collected sample of asteroid material when a return capsule falls to Earth at the Woomera rocket range in South Australia.
The Hayabusa2 probe has been on a 6bn km, ¥30bn ($388m) round trip to an asteroid named Ryugu, which started six years ago in December 2014. After landing on Ryugu twice…
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