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Asteroid Samples Returned To Earth by JAXA

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Tom Patton
Dec 08, 2020
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The Japanese space agency JAXA has successfully returned asteroid samples to Earth following a 2 billion mile journey through space. On Saturday, the Hayabusa2’s reentry capsule parachuted down to Australia’s remote desert Woomera Prohibited Area carrying material gathered from the Ryugu near-Earth asteroid during two sampling operations.

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