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Scientists Get First Look at Asteroid Sample from Space – IGN Africa
The samples come from the near-Earth asteroid named Ryugu.
Japanese scientists have gotten their first look inside the sample capsule from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft that contained asteroid dust from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu.
As reported by Space.com, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft launched in 2014 and arrived at Ryugu in 2018. It spent about a year and a half observing and sampling the asteroid before leaving to deposit the sample capsule back in Earth’s atmosphere.
A large number of particles are confirmed to be in sample chamber A inside the collected…
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