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Japan release stunning first images of asteroid Ryugu samples – Inverse
JAXA gave us the first look at the Ruygu asteroid samples, opening up the capsule that landed on Earth on December 6.
On December 6,
a piece of an asteroid was found in the middle of the Australian desert.
But this wasn’t an act of nature. It was a well-choreographed, meticulous transaction which took years of planning and execution.
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft, which traveled for nearly six years in space to tag and collect a sample from asteroid Ryugu, dropped off a small capsule containing pieces of the space rock for analysis here on Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) opened up the capsule…
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